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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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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True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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I object to several popular ideas. I don't think anyone's work is reductive. The most the term can mean is that new work doesn't have what the old work had. Its not so definitive that a certain kind of form is missing; a description and discussion of the kind present is pretty definitive.
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For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.
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I always write authors after I read their books. I've been doing it for years. I write a formal letter and send it to them in care of their agent. My mother always taught us to write thank you notes, and if an author puts themselves out there, they like to hear that their book connected with someone.
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For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.
