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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Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.
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Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.
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My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.
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The world's whole sap is sunk: The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life is shrunk, Dead and interred; yet all these seem to laugh, Compared with me, who am their epitaph.
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I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'
