Philip Treacy Quotes
People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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You could almost write an opera about the selection of music directors for orchestras. The intrigues are really interesting, and then, at the end, the results are completely unexpected.
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When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.
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Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.
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People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.
