Tommy Hilfiger (Thomas Jacob Hilfiger) Quotes
I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.
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You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.
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Everything does go in a circle.
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I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.
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At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
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There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.
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A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.
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I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.
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It was a white-collar crime.” Illium gave her an odd look. “In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.
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When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.
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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena
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In the early '70s [the late] Ras Shorty and I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso's African rhythms, and soca was born against the wishes of the purists.
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I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.
