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

  

  Gary Cole
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  • Up
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• 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
  • Live
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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
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• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

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

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Live
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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
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• All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.

  

  Igor Luksic
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• We are going to position ourselves as a world-class financial institution. We want to do things that are comparable to the best in the world. At the same time, we want to have very strong human qualities.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Time
  • World
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• For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Character
  • Soul
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• My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.

  

  Christopher Buckley
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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
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• Cristiano is an explosive type of player, with great technique, but he's still not as gifted as Messi in my opinion. Messi is more of a genius than Cristiano. Cristiano is so strong physically, so powerful, but Messi has more creativity.

  

  Fabio Capello
  • Great
  • Strong
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• 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