Donatella Versace Quotes
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.
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Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.
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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
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It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
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The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
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My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.
