Pierre Cardin Quotes

My name is more important than myself.

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• I'm very self-critical.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Very
  • Self-Critical

• I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Soccer

• I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
  • Just

• I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Israel
  • Critical
  • Policies

• There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Book
  • Moment

• The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Past
  • Simple
  • Now

• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • Minds

• The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Life
  • History

• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Wise
  • Circumstances
  • Weak

• Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.

  

  Nas
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Praise

• The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Drama

• This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Thought
  • Transformation

• I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

  

  Jack Black
  • Mean
  • Butter
  • Peanut Butter

• The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Teachers

• As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • High
  • Myself

• I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Comedy
  • Style
  • Bullying

• Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that it's OK, that you're not isolated and broken, that this is part of the human challenge, and that there is hope. The capacity for online interactions to do that is powerful.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Hope
  • Desire

• I definitely am the sort of person that likes to be constantly learning things.

  

  Emma Dumont
  • Learning

• I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Human
  • Born
  • Nobility

• Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Experience
  • Hope

• Music has always been really important to me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Music
  • Important
  • Me

• In professions where the criteria of professionalism, expertise, good manners and ethics apply, the gender aspect, i.e., whether a person is a man or woman, is not relevant at all. What is important is that citizens' confidence in politicians and the politics is strong enough to make politicians proud of their profession.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Proud

• My name is more important than myself.

  

  Pierre Cardin
  • Important