Roberto Cavalli Quotes
I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
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Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.
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Il y a toujours quelque chose d’absent qui me tourmente.
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Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
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When I first arrived, I likened Congress to being back in school again as a freshman. Well, just like school, we have an 'August recess,' but don't let the name fool you - it's not even close to a vacation.
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I like looking cute. So I want to look cute in the water.
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Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
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I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
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Every book presents its own specific challenges, or should, and you're right that this one has a preoccupation with uncertainty. In this, Valiant Gentlemen is a rupture from previous work as its obsession is with the psychology of characters who are in states of unknowing living in unpredictable times where the stakes are unusually high.
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We could now make intelligent, grown-up decisions to keep us from falling into the same trap, ... We're interacting more as friends and companions. We share the same bus, sometimes the same dressing room, and have brought our kids out to share the silliness.
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I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.
