Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
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You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Hay dolores que han perdido la memoria y no recuerdan por qué son dolores.
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The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.
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I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.
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I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.
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Fashion is not art. Never.
