Rei Kawakubo Quotes
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
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Writers are so important.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
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Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale - we only have one planet after all. We're better off cutting our emissions so we don't need them.
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I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.
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When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.
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You can pay for school, but you can't buy class
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The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.
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Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.
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Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
