Dries van Noten Quotes
Many a fashion designer's career was founded using packs upon packs of Polaroids, and though we love them, we forget that the image quality was often circumspect.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Of course I get hurt.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
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If you want to be the best salesperson, first you must be the best person.
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I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.
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I've never detected a correlation between where I am and what I write. I think there could be something subconscious, though. And I can't really speak for my subconscious.
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During the race, we lose 2-4 kilos of liquids.
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The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
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Many a fashion designer's career was founded using packs upon packs of Polaroids, and though we love them, we forget that the image quality was often circumspect.
