Dionne Bromfield Quotes
I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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You acquire certain tastes. And if your taste happens to coincide with the majority of people, then you're in pretty good shape. But you're not always right. There were times when I stubbed my toe, and some will end up being on my tombstone - like 'Supertrain.'
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We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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It is clear as you look at the team why Data Point Capital has so quickly become one of the premier venture capital firms. I look forward to adding to the firm's very bright future.
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I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.
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I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.
