Paulina Porizkova Quotes
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.
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A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?
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There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.
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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
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Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.
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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.
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A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.
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The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.
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I love how close New York is to Europe; I love the seasons, and I don't think I could live without them. They're the way I track the passage of time.
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A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. So they have gone very slowly. At any one point in their history a hasty observer would say that all technological progress and diffusion had ceased. Yet it never has. Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
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I was just a kid who had arrived in the world of professional football and thought he could do anything he wanted. But I have learned from my mistakes. I have done everything to change, both on and off the pitch.
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My name is Paulina Porizkova, and I am a feminist.
