Peter Nygard Quotes
I knew nothing about the industry, I didn't go to fashion school, but I was brave enough to do things in a different way.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.
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I'm born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part of my life, and I love it. Thank God my mom put me in American school because I'm able to be working in the States, and it opens a lot more doors being half and not being only one. It's cool because I get to turn it on and off.
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It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
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One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.
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I knew nothing about the industry, I didn't go to fashion school, but I was brave enough to do things in a different way.
