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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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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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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It's been a good hockey life for me anyway.
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Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.
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To be the best CEO you can be, you have to be passionate about the business you're running. And I have true passion for the financial markets and the financial industry.
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It’s really critical to have your dream life in your mind so that you’re constantly adjusting and designing your business in such a way to accomplish it, because you could very easily be highly successful and not accomplish the lifestyle you really want to accomplish in your heart.
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My favorite quarterback is Donovan McNabb. I think he's a complete quarterback. I love the way he can scramble and throw on the run. He can do it all. He can control a game.
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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.
