Vera Wang Quotes
I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.
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Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
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By the time Joan of Arc was 16 and had proclaimed herself the virgin warrior sent by God to deliver France from her enemies, the English, she had been receiving the counsel of angels for three years.
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I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
