Dries van Noten Quotes
Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects... the list is endless.

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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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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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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Don't matter if you're rich, poor or whatever, you just want to be able to have your own experiences in life and listen and learn from other people.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.
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I pondered what I should do and wasn't sure. Then it just finally became clear.
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Things changed a little when I started taking photographs for magazines. I was afraid in the beginning. I thought, "Oh I can't do it, because I have never taken a photographs commercially for a magazine." But I wanted to learn so I started. But when I took models from agencies, I took beginners. Sometimes they were really good, but you have to work with them. You have to be good with women and the boys.
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Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects... the list is endless.