Alber Elbaz Quotes
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.
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You have to follow that next step.
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I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.
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We make decisions every day about what we're going to eat. And some people want to buy Nike shoes - two pairs, and other people want to eat Bronx grapes and nourish themselves. I pay a little extra, but this is what I want to do.
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I just love what Nicholas Britell did with 'Moonlight.'
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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It would wreck my image.
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I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
