John Varvatos Quotes
A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'
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A house is kind of scary.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
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The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
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The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
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I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.
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Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.
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We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
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I've always lived in the moment.
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I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.
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I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
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I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.
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The bill is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives.
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My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.
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A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.
