Vera Wang Quotes
I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
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If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
