Alain Wertheimer Quotes
We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.
Alain Wertheimer
Quotes to Explore
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
Adam Davidson
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
Halima Aden
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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
Nathan Myhrvold
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
Rafe Spall
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
Wendy Davis
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
Vanessa Bayer
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
Barbra Streisand
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
Safak Pavey
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
Baltasar Kormakur
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There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
Danica McKellar
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
Maeve Binchy
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Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.
H. L. Mencken
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But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.
Michael Hutchence
INXS
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The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.
Oliver North
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And yet I was filled with grief. In the beginning of all love there is grief, because at that moment you’re closest to the ghost of parting. You know how easily it could all slip away, how easily it could evaporate into eternal, never-to-be-consummated longing.
Edeet Ravel
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We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.
Alain Wertheimer
