Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
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I really believe that women have much easier access to their souls than men do. Because as men we're taught to wear masks, to drown out our emotions in competition and making money. Now women are being forced to do that too. But I admire their capacity to bear their spirituality so much more deeply than men.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
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I try to always bring topics to the table that matter, topics that I think need to be discussed and reflected on.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
