George Zimmer Quotes
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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When I'm working, even though it's sometimes challenging and difficult, there's still no place I would rather be.
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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
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I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
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I don't care what you call it. I believe in the quote, unquote, Holy Holocaust.
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I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.
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I believe in giving people a second chance.
