Valentino Garavani Quotes
I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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Love masters agony; the soul that seemedForsaken feels her present God againAnd in her Father's armsContented dies away.
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I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.
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I always urge women to aim for the highest job they can get because you get more money and you get more support and you get more control, and those are the three things that actually make life easier.
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I don't do the same food in Tokyo that I do in Vegas and vice versa. If I did that, two weeks later I would have no customers.
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Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.
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I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.
