Carolyn Murphy Quotes

Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.

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• Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  

  Jackie Robinson
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  • Respect
  • Honesty

• I want to work with the best coaches in the world.

  

  Eden Hazard
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  • Work
  • Best

• We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Real
  • Game

• I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
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  • Think
  • Pretty

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
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  • Respect

• My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are even some moms who think it's cheesy. It's a role you can't prepare for; it's a role you don't get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it's been the most fulfilling.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Color

• All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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  • Reality
  • Best

• Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

  

  Vera Wang
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  • Today
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• Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Men
  • Power

• With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

  

  C. S. Forester
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  • She
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• There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

  

  Barry White
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  • Music
  • Nice

• I'm gonna tell y'all what we tell the crowd every night when we play back in the States. We tell them to remember people sleeping in a sandstorm so that we can be free.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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  • Remember
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• I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

  

  Dan Stevens
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  • Real
  • Parents

• I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Know
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• The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

  

  Ralph Marston
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  • Faith
  • Patience

• City of Los Angeles is my home, and it is my duty to lead by example, contribute all that I can, and help make the world a better place with the tools and resources available to me.

  

  Walter O'Brien
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• Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Why
  • America

• I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn't do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths. My parents told me to truly accomplish things in my life, there would be times I would have to stand alone. It may be scary, but that's what it requires.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
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  • Age

• I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
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  • Know

• I don't want to work on a musical if I'm not the lyricist.

  

  David Lindsay-Abaire
  • Work

• If you have a Bible that’s falling apart, you’ll have a life that’s not.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Bible

• Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.

  

  Carolyn Murphy
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion