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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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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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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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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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
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I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.
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As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.
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Instruments are a phenomenal investment, especially violins and violas and celli, because the value really doesn't go down, and it just rises up at incredible speed and has done, and I believe will continue to do so, because these rare instruments are not getting more. They are getting less and less through the years.
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I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.
