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 love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Love
  • New York
  • London

• I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Want
  • Those
  • Arty

• I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Know
  • Everything

• 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.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Canada

• 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.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Time
  • Art
  • Fashion

• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Want
  • Actor
  • Existence

• 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.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • High
  • Want
  • Matter

• 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.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Up
  • Mother
  • City

• 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.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Know

• If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Work
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • World
  • Want
  • Drama

• I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Want
  • City

• If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Want

• I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Country
  • Want
  • Rest

• 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.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Good
  • Want
  • Finding

• I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Fly
  • New
  • New York

• Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Best

• The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Up
  • Free
  • Past

• So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'

  

  Raekwon
  • Real
  • Help
  • Attention

• I hold an office in trust, not a title. I don't want to say it's a kamikaze approach to life, but it's ingrained.

  

  Bob Latta
  • Life
  • Trust

• I have such memories; I keep thinking about all the people I worked with. I was in the recording studio and I was talking to one of the engineers who is 24 and they don't know these people. They just absolutely don't know the people and it just tickles me. I don't feel like I've grown up.

  

  Diana Ross
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Want
  • New York
  • Paris