Florentijn Hofman Quotes
The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
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I go and see music all the time.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
