Rei Kawakubo Quotes
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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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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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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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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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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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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Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.
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There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.
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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
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Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when you're tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations don't need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational.'
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Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
