Abdulmajid Quotes & Sayings

He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart. — Damon Runyon

The end of an unclouded day. Almost a happy one. Just one of the 3,653 days of his sentence, from bell to bell. The extra three were for leap years. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Your image as a model is your currency. That's the only thing you've got. No one cares what you look like in real life. Nobody is going to say the make up guy was terrible. They will say, you look awful and let's not book her again. — Iman Abdulmajid

On a pure entertainment level, if I'm going to choose to listen to a presidential candidate speak on a Saturday night, it's going to be Donald Trump over Bernie Sanders by a landslide! — Jerrod Carmichael

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative. — Iman Abdulmajid

Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some. — Iman Abdulmajid

Don't be afraid to walk away from things that are just not right for you. — Iman Abdulmajid

If I say something about David [Bowie], I get 1000 tweets, if I say something about my business just a few! The more personal, the better. — Iman Abdulmajid

It's a way of talking about lust without talking about lust, he told them. It is a way of talking about sex, and fear of sex, and death, and fear of death, and what else is there to talk about? — Neil Gaiman

A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you. — Iman Abdulmajid

There is no great writing, only great rewriting. — Louis D. Brandeis

If all the world must see the world
As the world the world hath seen,
Then it were better for the world
That the world have never been. — Charles Godfrey Leland

The core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way. — Philip Yancey

As a young girl, I was much more preoccupied by my flaws. Everyone teased me because of my long, skinny neck. To hide my so-called deformity, I was wearing a turtleneck when I was 3! Yet my neck is probably my best asset. At the end of the day, what counts is the entire package. — Iman Abdulmajid

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. — Bill Gates

My saving grace was that I always knew when to leave the party. — Iman Abdulmajid

Yes, well we're all clean as whistles my darling until men like him come along and dirty us right up — Samantha Towle

I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired. — Dick Van Dyke

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on. — Iman Abdulmajid

One thing my mother always instilled in me is to always know my worth. Don't settle for less. She used to say to me 'Iman, no is a complete sentence, learn to say no. You don't have to explain it you don't have to say anything after it. It's a complete sentence.' So when I came to America 1975, I found out that the black models were being paid less than white models. So the first thing I did was say I'm not going to do the job unless I'm paid the same amount. — Iman Abdulmajid

There is strength in numbers. — Iman Abdulmajid

No one is calling any of these designers racist. The act itself is racist. There were more black models working in the Seventies than there are in 2013. This a time when silence is not acceptable at all. If the conversation cannot be had publicly in our industry, then there is something inherently wrong. — Iman Abdulmajid

Every generation and every group brings the door into other things. — Iman Abdulmajid

Hopefully you're on the edge of your seat when reading WUWPOO. That's my favorite reading position. — S.N. Deinscheiss

I'm a very open person. I know I open my mouth way too much, but I just do that. — Courteney Cox

The one thing my mother instilled in me, well both my parents but specifically my mother - I come from a Muslim country where boys were more wanted than girls so she always made me feel that there is nothing that I couldn't do as well as the boys if not better. — Iman Abdulmajid

I am proud to be an actor. — Rod Taylor

When 9/11 happened, 12 of our neighborhood firemen were killed. I looked around at the country that had adopted me and I became an American. — Iman Abdulmajid