Hedi Slimane Quotes
When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
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You were born as the one you are.
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
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I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.
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If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.
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I might get some more animals or something, but I'm done with the kids. I got a boy, I got a girl, and I got an older boy. I'm straight.
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The rise of women and feminism is well documented. What is equally fascinating - and less talked about - is the impact this has had on men.
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When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.
