Tamara Mellon Quotes
The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm definitely a city kid.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.
