Aldo Gucci Quotes
Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.
Quotes to Explore
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.
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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.
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Grace can and does have a history.
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I love doing yoga and also enjoy going for regular walks.
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Nobody scares me.
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
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Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.
