Alber Elbaz Quotes
I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
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I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
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I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; perhaps they think wildness could work only in a larger space.
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I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.
