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When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience.


Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

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COLLIS POTTER HUNTINGTON And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which w...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON From 1882 until the 1950s, a whole series of legislation excluded immigrants from Asia from coming t...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Well, I think the worst thing would be for us to stumble into a great war without realizing it, with...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has e...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON One doesn't know whether that economic growth will continue at its recent rates, and China may well ...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't reall...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Yes, immigrants and immigration have been an important part of the American history. But they are no...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Collective will supplants individual whim
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universalit...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Is this how Julia Roberts' character feels like in Pretty Woman? Two parts princess, one part whore?
PARKER S. HUNTINGTON Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, a...
ROSIE O'DONNELL Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is wi...
ROSIE O'DONNELL