Dries van Noten Quotes
I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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One thing I'm proud to do like a girl is represent my country in the Olympics and at the highest level, at the highest platform that I can.
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When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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There are very few things that I love more than being on stage and performing, but more than anything, I want to be a positive role model for teenage girls.
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.
