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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Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
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I've never done drag, but I'd love to try it.
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Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
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My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.
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I think it's great for the women to show that they are women and be feminine. And that's something that I've always promoted.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
