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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My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.
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Presents, I often say, endear absents.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age.
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Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.