Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
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Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.
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I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.
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I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.
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I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
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I think my favorite part about being on the road is that it's like a boys' club.
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I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we really need to put our efforts - if we want to think long-range and invest in the community so that we don't have to, you know, invest in prisons - into making a change, because I know that the library can make a change in a life, because it made a change in mine.
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I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
