Vera Wang Quotes
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
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But I think we need the international market.
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, 'You should always buy something to treat yourself to say, 'Well done for getting the job!'
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
