Geoffrey Beene Quotes
The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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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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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.
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In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle development issues directly without depending much on the government.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to gate. Other measures come with the waits on the expressways and the runways.
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The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.
