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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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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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.
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America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive.
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If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the voice of Satan trying to convince the bride that the groom does not love her. This is not the voice of God. God woos us with kindness. He changes out of character with the passion of his love.
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I'm not particularly good at running things when once they get to a certain level. Once it gets routine, get me out of the way.
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Forty years ago, my life in music was substantially different to today. I went out every night with my guitar seeking a place to sing, a floor on which to lie, some love, some food, a lot of wine. There was no business, no gigs, no questions, no P.R., recording, life was simpler, I was poor and young and hungry. Today I am a lot more focused on The Song.
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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.
