Oscar de la Renta Quotes
If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
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I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.
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Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.
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I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
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It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.”
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
