Tadashi Yanai Quotes
In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
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Act because you love to act.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
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In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one.
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High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
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I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'
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There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.
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In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.
