Tyra Banks Quotes About Model, Change, Tone, Beauty, Culture

Tyra Banks Quotes:

As I look into the future, I see radical changes in both how people ‘attain beauty,’ and how the world perceives beauty. In general, I believe traditional beauty will be less valuable – and more uniqueness will be heralded.
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Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based.
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Believe it or not, I don’t wake up looking like a supermodel.
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Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can’t we just be the sexy American girl next door?
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Dab – don’t rub – cream formulas onto your skin. Rubbing washes out the color, so do that only if you’ve put on too much.
Tyra Banks

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You’re in one minute, out the next.
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Don’t contour with blush – that’s so eighties. It was an amazing trend then, but it’s not hot now. Instead, go for a neutral contour color that’s one or two shades deeper than your skin tone.
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Flaws are awesome – so, ‘flawsome!’ I love making up a word.
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Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will be the aspirational beauty standard, representing that those women have access to bounties of fulfilling yet healthy food, which means they are affluent.
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I actually studied with The Groundlings.
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I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.
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I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don’t mind telling it all.
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I created ‘America’s Next Top Model’ one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be ‘American Idol’ meets ‘Ford Supermodel of the Year’ meets ‘The Real World.’
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I did an episode on my talk show on cellulite, and I brought seven women into a dressing room at Nordstrom’s in L.A., and we all sat and talked about our cellulite.
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I do consider myself a feminist, yeah. Totally.
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I don’t go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.
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I don’t know how to be sexy on a date. Put up a camera and a wind machine, and I’ll give you sexy. Put me at a dinner table with some candlelight and the moon shining in and, oh, I will give you dork.
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I don’t like expensive things… I just can’t help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.
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