Melanie Laurent Quotes
I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
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The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
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I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
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I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'
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I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.
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The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
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The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
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That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.
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I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.
