Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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I don't believe that if you are going to build a long-term, sustainable brand that you can chop up every component part and expect everyone to have a perfect P&L.
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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.
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Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
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If you have put your faith in Christ and have spent significant time in the Word of God, the tough times can be like a magnet that draws you to the Lord Jesus. Nothing is going to happen - ever - that will catch Jesus Christ by surprise. He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.
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I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
