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.

  

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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.

  

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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 live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

  

  Walker Percy
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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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• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
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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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• My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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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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• 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
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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
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• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

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

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• The New Gods really need to be larger than life. There's an operatic quality to them, and they need to be handled pretty carefully, or else you'll go too far and be almost like a caricature.

  

  Cliff Chiang
  • Life
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• Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
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• These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Eyes
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• The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Water
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  • Sea

• 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