Pierre Cardin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm 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!
-
I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
-
I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
-
My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
-
There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
-
The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
-
I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
-
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.
-
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
-
Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
-
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
-
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.
-
Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.
-
There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.
-
Understanding who you serve is always a very important problem, and it only gets harder the more people that you serve. We try to pay a lot of attention to this by a combination of very rigorous quantitative and qualitative feedback. But if you’re serving 1.2 billion people, it’s very hard.
-
My name is more important than myself.
