Raf Simons Quotes
I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I call this The Dictator Syndrome. You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it. But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only if you were an absolute dictator-having at your disposal all the government's power to compel everyone to do things your way.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value.
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It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.
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I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
