Donna Karan Quotes

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

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• Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Environment
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Effort

• Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Bad
  • Police
  • Nobody

• Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Educational
  • Facilities

• There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Women
  • Feminist

• I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Universe
  • Speak
  • Achieve

• There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Nothing
  • Vanity

• If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Woman
  • Sex
  • Thanks

• But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Die

• Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Dance
  • Pleasures

• If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Design
  • Building
  • Clothes

• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • American
  • Mother
  • British

• There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Independent

• Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • World
  • Government

• Often, when you're on a movie set, you're miserable. It's cold. You're hungry. You're tired. It's still dark out. And yet, there's no place I'd rather be. It's the happiest I am, and the most calm.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Movie
  • Cold
  • Tired

• Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

  

  Galeazzo Ciano
  • Victory
  • Defeat
  • Orphan

• There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Good
  • Best
  • Dark

• Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

  

  Alexander Mackenzie
  • Political
  • Action
  • Logic

• If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • American
  • Financial

• Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.

  

  Matthew Lillard
  • Good
  • Character
  • Funny

• Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.

  

  Bill Bailey
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Vegetarian

• Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Challenge
  • Design
  • Balance