Alber Elbaz Quotes
I wanted to go out of fashion, to study medicine. I thought, you know, who needs fashion? How important is it if you wear a red dress and an orange jacket? It's not, really.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.
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Unfettered markets eventually get out of whack.
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I'm really wary of self-help books.
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Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.
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Cultural activity is what makes us human.
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I wanted to go out of fashion, to study medicine. I thought, you know, who needs fashion? How important is it if you wear a red dress and an orange jacket? It's not, really.
