Pier Luigi Loro Piana Quotes
So many young designers are focused on styling rather than materials now. We have to change that.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.
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I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
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I've been embracing gray hair since... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.
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If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?
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Perfectionists are their own devils.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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Beating cancer is personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touch wood.
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People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.
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I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.
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I don't like it when people shout on stage without any particular reason. It carries no weight.
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It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought...
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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Doing something out of town is so beautiful because it really becomes about the process, and the product will be a result of it, but process is what is the goal - to really see what works and create the best story possible.
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So many young designers are focused on styling rather than materials now. We have to change that.
