Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real time than on facts, history, logic, or learned experience.
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The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
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When you first meet someone, it's always about one-upmanship. The couple tries to impress each other.
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Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food.
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I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
