John Paul DeJoria Quotes
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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I used to read a lot of fashion magazines: my favourite was 'Nylon.' I used to cut out all the pictures from magazines, and I had this book where I would keep all of the stuff that inspired me.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
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I'm known for my handwritten notes.
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I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.
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I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.
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Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel - only worse.
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
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Die Welt ist so leer, wenn man nur Berge, Flüsse und Städte darin denkt, aber hie und da jemand zu wissen, der mit uns übereinstimmt, mit dem wir auch stillschweigend fortleben, das macht uns dieses Erdenrund erst zu einem bewohnten Garten.
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I've always wanted to do my own thing, and my parents allowed me to do what I needed.
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Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
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I don't like to compare myself with anybody.
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I am no technophobe. I like being able to calibrate communication, depending on the situation - texting for the simple and immediate; email for business or when I want to put some lag time into the exchange; Twitter to promote something; Facebook to draw a crowd.
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I pay parking tickets. You know, you can try to give 50%, but then they charge you all those penalties! Seriously, I have gotten many, many, many tickets in my life.
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Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.
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The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there are too many conflicting interests that are competing to impede. The second is mistaking incubation for transformation and concluding that failure to achieve escape velocity is due to lack of innovation. It never is. It is always do to lack of leadership focus and, especially, fortitude.
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We are the first to ever publicly advertise we don't test on animals.
