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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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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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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My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.
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How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.
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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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There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.
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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 tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
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Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
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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.
