Hubert de Givenchy Quotes
Balenciaga taught me everything I know. He taught me to care for the details, that it was not necessary to sew on a button where it had no use or to add a flower to make a dress beautiful... no unnecessary detail.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I like to accentuate the feminine form, so I'm a big fan of corsets. A woman's body is beautiful and should be shown off and celebrated. I love a simple and elegant dress that highlights my waist.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
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We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
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There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's that postmodern thing - it's more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being's experience.
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There's no doubt: The iPad is a beautiful, extremely well-designed device.
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The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.
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Balenciaga taught me everything I know. He taught me to care for the details, that it was not necessary to sew on a button where it had no use or to add a flower to make a dress beautiful... no unnecessary detail.
