Hubert de Givenchy Quotes
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
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We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
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There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.
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I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.
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I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.
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It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.
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I'm all about scary movies! The 'Halloweentown' ones are my absolute favorites.
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From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.
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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
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My dad is easily one of my biggest inspirations to play this game. To hear people talk bad about me, it hurt me because I know it hurts him, and that's not who I am. I know he raised better, and I know I want to do better.
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I hate these fucking stretch bastards junk pimp mobiles!
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The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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I always think like I was born in the country where everybody ate apples. Then I ended up in the country where everybody eats bananas. So now, I eat bananas so long, I'm just remembering the apples.
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One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds' though a crack in the living-room door. It transformed my hitherto perfectly enjoyable half-mile walk to school, down a country lane patrolled by watchful birds, into a terrifying ordeal.
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Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
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For my wife and I, our first child was really easy to have, but our second one was really hard to have. We had to go to a lot of fertility clinics and do that whole thing.
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Encouragement helps you to go one step more, become better.
