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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think my numbers speak for themselves.
-
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
-
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.
-
I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
-
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
-
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
-
I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
-
Republicans have never been good at public relations.
-
I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
-
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.
-
I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
-
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.
-
I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.
-
My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
-
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.
-
I regret all of my books.
-
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.
-
Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
-
With a larger wheel, you have more contact with the ground, so you have better traction whether you're braking or cornering or any of that stuff. Also, with bigger wheels, once you get them up to speed, they roll faster.
-
We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.
-
In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the greatest historians of both African and African-American history, and hired them as consultants. I had them submit what they thought were the indispensable stories, the ones they felt this series absolutely had to include.
-
I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
-
One day I was at the park with my family, all my cousins and stuff, in Frankston... We were all just singing a song and my aunty was like 'oh guys, she can actually hold a note.' I think that's the earliest memory of someone actually pointing me out as someone that has an ability to sing. I was probably like 7 years old.
-
I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.
