Adolphe Quetelet Quotes
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.
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I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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The average man. The emergence of the concept.
