Hubert de Givenchy Quotes
In the early '50s, it was still the time of Christian Dior's New Look. Every dress was big and important, and I thought I must do something completely different. Women needed something for daytime that was wearable.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.
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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
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I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel.
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In the early '50s, it was still the time of Christian Dior's New Look. Every dress was big and important, and I thought I must do something completely different. Women needed something for daytime that was wearable.
