Sara Blakely Quotes
The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.
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There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.
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I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.
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History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
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The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.
