Donna Karan Quotes
I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.
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I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'
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God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.
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The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.
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I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.
