Mario Testino Quotes
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.
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You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
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I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
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The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
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Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
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Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.
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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
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I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
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If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this...these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one’s beloved.
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Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.
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Clarke's First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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I love karaoke and totally hog the mic when I go out and do it with my friends.
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We'll continue to invest in new technology because we think every woman should have the ability to be connected through her beauty knowledge, opinions, products, and routine.
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I'm very lucky, coming from a great school.
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I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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You can fire your revenues by firing your people.
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I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.
