Oscar de la Renta Quotes
I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
Quotes to Explore
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.
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I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.
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I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.
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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
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There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
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When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.
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I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
