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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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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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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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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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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One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.
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The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.
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I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
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I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.
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It is understandable that the Fed injects cash to avoid the collapse of the stock market, but basically it is bad policy for monetary authorities to intervene to save speculators from bankruptcy. This is not their role.
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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.
