Pierre Cardin Quotes
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I'm very self-critical.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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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.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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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.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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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.
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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.
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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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.
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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.
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I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.
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No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it.
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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
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Every day is a learning experience for city kids, and they are really sort of forced to interact with everyone around them and develop into social beings.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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My name is more important than myself.
