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Christy Turlington (37)

Birth:	2nd January, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director, Model

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Births

• 1929 - Harvey Gallagher Cox Jr.
• 1861 - Nellie Melba
• 1933 - Edward de Bono
• 1926 - Swami Kriyananda
• 1913 - Bert Hardy

Deaths

• 1954 - Charles Ives
• 1991 - Muriel Box
• 2002 - Walter Lord
• 1917 - Belva Lockwood
• 1994 - Jacques Ellul

• As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

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• A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

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• I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

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• Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.

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• Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.

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• I don’t think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

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• I have a beer belly.

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• I like the big questions.

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• I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I’d like to do.

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• I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

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• I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

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• I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone – when the time was right for me.

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• I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one’s life-not just the physical aspects.

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• I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.

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• It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

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• It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

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• I’d rather go naked than wear fur.

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• I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don’t know to quit smoking.

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• Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.

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• It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

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