Donna Karan Quotes
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's just me. My music is urban pop, and my style of dressing is urban but still girly. I like that combination. The contrast is very nice.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women.
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I know that 'The Accident' is not a completely accurate reflection of the reality of the book publishing world, which, like nearly any other business, consists mostly of people sitting in small offices staring at computer screens or reading or trying to stay awake in meetings.
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Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.
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So that's the biggest lessonsI've learned it is your dream, you do not need a business loan, you do not need the support of others, you need to do what you need to do and when you become, what do I want to call the word, like legitimate, when people see that you are real, then people will support you, but you can't ask them to take a risk on you.
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Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.
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Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.
