Philip Treacy Quotes
Try on 100 different hats if you can, until you find the one that suits you best. It's a trial and error thing.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
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Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.
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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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I couldn't wait to get out, and at 14, I moved into a three-room Georgetown town house with Dad. I never went back. When they eventually sold the house, in 1984, Mom had a goodbye party for 'Merrywood.' I refused to go.
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Try on 100 different hats if you can, until you find the one that suits you best. It's a trial and error thing.
