Isabella Blow Quotes
If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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I think it was 37 years that I did music.
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I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.
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Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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Check-ins are cool, but kind of a pain.
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Everything I've experienced, things that my friends have experienced and we talk about, things that are on the news - all aspects of life are in my message.
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.
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Whatever you thought you would wear when you got pregnant, you won't be wearing that.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering.
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If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up.
