Alexander McQueen Quotes
It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I think you'd have to live under a rock to not know who MacGyver is.
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My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.
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The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.
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The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. What's good in that? In any case, I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War, with the U.S. or any other country in the world.
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It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
