Dennis Basso Quotes
I love dressing Nicole Kidman... And I like dressing regular people. You know why? They buy the clothes!
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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The girls grew up playing in my closet - trying on my shoes, etc. Now the tables have turned.
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I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.
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I’m in a very lucky position which allows me to spend a bit of time to speak to the people I’ve met over the years, to try and help out where I can.
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I love dressing Nicole Kidman... And I like dressing regular people. You know why? They buy the clothes!
