Christophe Lemaitre Quotes
Hermès and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
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Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
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I am not in the giving vein today.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.
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A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.
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Hermès and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical.
