Tamara Mellon Quotes
When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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I would never walk off any show.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.
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I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?
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Italy - I love the late-night culture, hanging around the square at midnight with everyone, catching up and having a drink.
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Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.
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Obama is as likely to be impeached as he is to be installed as the next pontiff. And I say that as someone who has testified in Congress that this president has violated federal laws, unconstitutionally appointed various executive-branch officers and improperly transferred money.
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When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
