Hubert de Givenchy Quotes
People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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I'm just the biggest klutz. That's the problem. I don't get hurt doing cool things.
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I don't want to be held down by genres so much.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.
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People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant.
