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It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.


Naomi Alderman

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NAOMI CAMPBELL I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, '...
NAOMI CAMPBELL Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
NAOMI CAMPBELL What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
NAOMI CAMPBELL The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
NAOMI CAMPBELL Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
NAOMI CAMPBELL It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, r...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
NAOMI CAMPBELL I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
NAOMI CAMPBELL My features are completely ethnic.
NAOMI CAMPBELL The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. If we don't get the money fast enough to r...
AL NAOMI The water does circulate out of the basin eventually. But it depends a lot on meteorological conditi...
AL NAOMI It's possible to protect New Orleans from a Category 5 hurricane. To do nothing is tantamount to neg...
AL NAOMI I can't go above it by law. That's what I am authorized to do. Anything above that means I have to s...
AL NAOMI If you don't install some type of substantial hurricane protection along the Gulf coast it's going t...
AL NAOMI We can't even get in there to have a chance to look at that and see the condition of the infrastruct...
AL NAOMI They did not contribute to the flooding of the city.
AL NAOMI It's not a significant decrease but it's not rising any more. It will still take a while to get the ...
AL NAOMI As I remember it, the worst of the storm had passed when we got word the floodwall had collapsed. It...
AL NAOMI As I remember it the worst of the storm had passed when we got word the floodwall had collapsed. It ...
AL NAOMI Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perh...
NAOMI WEISSTEIN The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.
NAOMI KLEIN