Joseph Abboud Quotes
I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.
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I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.
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I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.'
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.
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After my wife and I were married, we obtained a rescue dog from a family that didn't want her anymore. She was a beautiful Collie/Shepherd mix named 'Precious.' It then came to pass that our first marital 'debate' was whether we should change the dog's name away from the same name used by the wacky villain in 'Silence of the Lambs.'
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I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.
