Donatella Versace Quotes
I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
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We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference.
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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
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I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.
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Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.
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It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I'm just happy to keep going.
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The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.
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Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
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I know this sounds weird, but I honestly believe music comes from the universe. Inspiration comes from the universe, and you drag it into your mind.
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Anna Paquin is marvelous, and she brings so much experience to the table.
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If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid's school, great. If you want to build a garden - whatever it is. Women like myself - they're complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.
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Not to forget, you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. It's true that I am an engineer. But also I am a general. And I am religious. I believe that no one can approach me except God.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
