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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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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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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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.
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When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
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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.
