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.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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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.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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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.
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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.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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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.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
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Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook.
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Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the center of attention. But I had a dream of being an actor. I went to NYU and studied theatre. I learned a craft. And began my career straight out of college.
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We're all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.
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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.'
