Tim Gunn Quotes
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I quite like being who I am.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.
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The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you see in the movies. But when you actually become an actor, you're like, 'Oh, wait, this is actually only a small portion of the storytelling. If I want to really tell a story, I'd want to be a director.'
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In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
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The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.
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When you are close allies and good friends, like Denmark and the U.S. are, there should also be room for disagreements along the way.
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I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.
