Erskine Bowles Quotes
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.
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A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.
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The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
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I see flaws as a kind of beauty.
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
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Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.
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I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.
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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
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There is always something about our feeling for beautiful things which can neither be described nor communicated, which is unshared and unshareable.
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
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A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.
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I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.
