Olivier Theyskens Quotes
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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Fly-fishing is really addictive.
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I play as I feel.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.
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My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.
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People are digging into house music even from other genres.
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Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.
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People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'
