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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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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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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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 regret all of my books.
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I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.
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When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.
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If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I'm writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they'll be simplified, because I'm cartooning it.
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As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.
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Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians.
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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.
