Imran Amed Quotes
One cabbie chastened me by saying that the fashion industry was doing harm to young people, who are trying to live up to an unrealistic ideal. It prompted me to make body image and diversity key issues on 'The Business of Fashion.'
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The world is too violent right now.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology
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I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
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You can't make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.
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I never intended to go into the family business. I've always been drawn to wanting to do something else at some time in my life.
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Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent it; and it won't be pleasant... We're still behaving in ways that have become disastrous... I don't think this helps us to survive... We're very species-centric... and now exist at the expense of every other form of life on Earth.
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One cabbie chastened me by saying that the fashion industry was doing harm to young people, who are trying to live up to an unrealistic ideal. It prompted me to make body image and diversity key issues on 'The Business of Fashion.'
