Rei Kawakubo Quotes
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.
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'Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I was the first one to say that there could be comfortable, sexy shoes, and it's a big part of our brand.
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I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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Change is never easy.
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I started off doing theater as a kid, and I always played a character. I hid behind the script and was told where to go. But to actually perform as yourself is very difficult. I didn't used to enjoy it, but now I do.
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As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.
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sub specie aeternitatis
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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Le temps dont nous disposons chaque jour est élastique; les passions que nous ressentons le dilatent, celles que nous inspirons le rétrécissent et l'habitude le remplit.
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He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan.
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Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.
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I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books - brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.
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I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light.
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For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.
