Christian Siriano Quotes
When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business, or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.
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I believed I was invincible.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.
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I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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I'm the 'Scandal'-'Nashville' kind of TV watcher.
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You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.
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When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business, or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.
