Victoria de los Angeles Quotes
In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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Pilates is great.
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I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.
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The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India.
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I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.
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To be honest, there are parts of 'How Literature Saved My Life' that began as interviews. Someone was telling me that they think the book sounds very phonic: that it sounds like me speaking. And I don't think it's a coincidence that there are six to ten passages that I cadged from various interviews that I did post-'Reality Hunger'.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
