Andre Leon Talley Quotes
The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.
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In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.
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I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy.
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And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
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The seasons had always been a part of the way I cooked and ate in Switzerland, and they again became what guided me in New York.
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The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.
