Daphne Guinness Quotes

I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

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• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

  

  Beck
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• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Way
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• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

  Dan Hill
  • School
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• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
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• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
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• There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • World
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• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Want
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• Success is the sweetest revenge.

  

  Vanessa Williams
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• There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

  

  Jack Wild
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• I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

  

  T-Pain
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• I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Think
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• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
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• Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Live
  • Funny
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• I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Real
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• What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Music
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  • You

• Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Children
  • Faith
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• If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Happy
  • Die
  • Perfect

• Temple is an intensely moral creature. She has a passionate sense of right and wrong, for example, in regard to the treatment of animals; and law, for her, is clearly not just the law of the land but, in some far deeper sense, a divine or cosmic law, whose violation can have disastrous effects-seeming breakdowns in the course of nature itself.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • She
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• When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

  

  Placido Domingo

• I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • May
  • Soul
  • Practice