Valentino Garavani Quotes
French people are charming, adorable but not extremely generous with foreigners, but they believe in what they do. I feel proud in exchange because what I did in restoration is something I did for La France.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. in the Spirit. It is the Spirit that maketh the work perfect, and acceptable in the sight of God. All that a man undertaketh and doeth in Faith, he doth in the Spirit of God, which Spirit of God doth co-operate in the work, and then it is acceptable to God.
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It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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French people are charming, adorable but not extremely generous with foreigners, but they believe in what they do. I feel proud in exchange because what I did in restoration is something I did for La France.
