Donna Karan Quotes

When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.'

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• Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.

  

  Gary Owen
  • People
  • Hope
  • Black

• But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Life
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  • My Life

• I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Help
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  • Style

• The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Dad
  • Amazing
  • Universe

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
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• I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Like
  • Now
  • Legs

• Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Being
  • Confuse
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• Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Reason

• It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Child

• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Problem
  • Color
  • Line

• It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Just

• The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Never
  • Constitution

• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Me
  • Things
  • Said

• I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Dad
  • Fashion
  • Style

• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Question
  • Never

• I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Good
  • Work
  • Doing Good

• One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Life
  • You
  • Road

• As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • Never
  • Fight

• I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Girl
  • Lunch
  • Likes

• And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

  

  John Donne
  • Death

• In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Independent
  • Rebel
  • My Heart

• When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.'

  

  Donna Karan
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women