Willemijn Verkaik Quotes
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
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I feel very lucky that I make a living doing what I always wanted to do.
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I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.
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I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.
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For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.
