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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One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.
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Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take the reigns for myself and go and do this.' I try to tell people to live their best life, and do what you know you need to do for yourself and your family. You need to be supported.
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My first audition was for a Dr. Pepper commercial.
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The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.
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I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
