Valentino Garavani Quotes
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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Friends ask me to pick the best 11 players, but sometimes the best 11 players are not the best team. So it's something that you have to work together.
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There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
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The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility.
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Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.
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I'm always cooking big veggie curries for friends with tons of spices, coconut milk, chilli - I'll saute potatoes in the spices, then cook them with all the flavours and stir in some chickpeas and spinach at the end before serving it on a bed of sesame brown rice. It's easy to do and tastes amazing!
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I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'
