Geoffrey Beene Quotes
When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
Quotes to Explore
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.
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I never want to make the quarterback feel like I'm being a distraction or I've got any negativity toward him.
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When a culture is broken, the cracks show - morale is weakened, but so is profit and performance. That's why culture has to be at the core of any business transformation.
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A lot of my friends, when I was 14 or 15, they were all up and down, wanting to go out on a Friday night, and my dad had me working really late on Fridays and Saturday mornings and even on Sunday mornings. And when I'd finished all that, we used to spend the rest of the time talking about boxing.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
