Helmut Lang Quotes
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I love trying new restaurants.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
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Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.
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My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
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I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get a new riff or groove that I like a lot. Then I'll concentrate on building around that line of thought by adding words and textures. At first I'm only trying to please myself, and hopefully what I like will appeal to others.
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Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow.
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I remember when I moved in you And the holy dove she was moving too, And every single breath that we drew was Hallelujah.
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The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
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There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
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ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.
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I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other reason than to hear stories about their parents when they were children.
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I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had a teenage character in almost every adult novel that I've written.
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What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word.
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Can you all just do me one favor? Don't take life for granted, because tomorrow isn't promised to any one of us.
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I'm really bad at describing my own life.
