Donatella Versace Quotes
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
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I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.
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I'll take my chances with this life all the same. The next one will find you no matter where you run. No sense chasing it.
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What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for art's sake' than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.
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The right use of food can end hunger.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.
