Nina Garcia Quotes
Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.
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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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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.
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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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America's a faith-based experiment as a country. We should celebrate and invite faith. And our motto is, 'In God We Trust.' This isn't something that divides; this is something that pulls together and lifts us up.
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I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
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Claims of a decisive 'turning point' in any election are often overblown - more often, such a moment merely crystallizes a change that's been days or weeks in the making. But you can make a real case that Obama's Jefferson-Jackson Day speech is a pivot point in America history.
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Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
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Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.
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On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
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Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.
