Hubert de Givenchy Quotes

You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself.

Hubert de Givenchy

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• If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Man

• Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• T Rex could not run.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Run
  • Could
  • t

• I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Responsibility
  • Best
  • Find

• I've signed a few sneakers in my day.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Day
  • Few
  • Sneakers

• I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception for these. They're too delicious to count.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Live
  • Doing
  • Count

• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Life
  • Political
  • Faith

• I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Think

• I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Long
  • Done

• This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Life

• In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

  

  Eliza Cook
  • Ambition

• My mom used to give me messages like this: 'Ummmmmmm...Scott called...IS HE THE GAY??!!' 'Well, God, mom, I don't know if he's the gay...that's a lot of pressure on just one guy. He has to do the parade all by himself! 'I'm here! I'm queer!...I guess I'm the only one.''

  

  Margaret Cho
  • God
  • Guy
  • Mom

• I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great

• We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

  

  Ann Veneman
  • Country
  • Small
  • Health

• Our communities must demand dignified housing, satisfying jobs, and proper labor conditions; our educational system must be culturally relevant, multi-lingual, and teach our histories. Our value should not be determined by legal records.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Value

• All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it.

  

  Mark McGrath Sugar Ray

• We don't really see a lot of war movies about the people that are left behind, dealing with the deaths of those who serve and the sacrifices they make.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • People
  • War

• I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Control
  • Technology
  • Growth

• What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball, Luis Aparicio.

  

  Nellie Fox
  • Fortunate
  • Requirements
  • Shortstops

• When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.

  

  Ernest Bramah
  • Wiser
  • Reminder
  • Discretion

• You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy