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 think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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Global inequality is such an abstract concept, simply because there is no global government. Telling people in rich countries who have had no increase in real incomes, stagnant median wages and so on, that on the other hand global inequality is going down because people who are much poorer than them are getting richer - it's something that maybe they would like in an abstract sense, because everyone is happy there are fewer poor Chinese, but you may not be as happy if these Chinese are taking your job.
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There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.
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Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.
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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.
