Dries van Noten Quotes
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
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Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
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Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.
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There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.
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Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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'I used to tell everyone I meant to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.'
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On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.
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I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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Don't complain; just work harder.
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With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
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I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'
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There were no ugly people in Ethiopia.
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Be just before you're generous.
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I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.
