Vera Wang Quotes
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
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You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
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I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwriter is super-important to me. Some people have that gift, where they can take on anything and make people believe it. I like to do a song from personal experience.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.
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Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
