Max Azria Quotes
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
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Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
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It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.
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America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.
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I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.
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I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
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My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.
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From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.
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The Vietnam War soured President Johnson's legacy. We still have to recognize his domestic legacy.
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Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
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Fashion is about comfort and feeling good.
