Bill Blass Quotes
Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like things seen as feminine. I want my son not to feel self-conscious he likes ballet and my daughter to carry on playing Han Solo; that's all.
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Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
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A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.
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Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.
