Pier Luigi Loro Piana Quotes
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.
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World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.
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I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.
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I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved.
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You see firemen, you see cops, and these guys risk their lives everyday. They do this all the time . . . to be able to see a smile on some of these people's faces -- they've gone through so much, they've lost so many of their friends.
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Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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I'm always on a quest to find the next best natural fiber.
