Prabal Gurung Quotes
I've always been interested in a femininity with a bite. I always think a little bit of a kick is great.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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There are no second acts in American lives.
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There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
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I applaud Chomsky's willingness to take a stand.
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I can truly say - and this in virtue of the whole structure of my thought - that I now feel more indissolubly bound to the hierarchical Church and to the Christ of the Gospel than ever before in my life. Never has Christ seemed to me more real, more personal or more immense.
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The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.
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Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
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What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.
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I've always been interested in a femininity with a bite. I always think a little bit of a kick is great.
