Petter Stordalen Quotes
What makes the world such a wonderful place is the diversity. I have always strived to fill my home, my office and my hotels with the most diverse crowds possible.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
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Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.
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A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.
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I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
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Me being so open just helps other people. People feel like they know me so much that they can talk to me all of the time about really personal things. Sometimes it's really nice and comforting. It depends on the person, whether they're creepy or not.
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I'd like to be a giant enabler.
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Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'
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'Dad, Dad, I'm getting married.' 'Sh-sh, don't say it. Nothing, nothing. Don't do anything.' So he honestly - 'cause he was taught don't celebrate - they'll take it away from you. And his parents were taught that, and his parents and parents' parents. Because if you did celebrate, and you were visible, it could be very, very dangerous.
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Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.
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I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.
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There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.
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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
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I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.
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What makes the world such a wonderful place is the diversity. I have always strived to fill my home, my office and my hotels with the most diverse crowds possible.
