Coco Chanel Quotes
My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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I don't want to be alone at 80 years old, dripping in diamonds - having never helped anyone. That's not my path. That's not what I care about. That's not what excites me.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.
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I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.
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I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
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I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
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I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.
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I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
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The world's most deadly disease is 'hardening of the attitudes.'
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I just want to be a good storyteller.
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Cate Blanchett and others, they get this broad range of all these cool people they can play. Some women really do get it all. For me, it is the same thing that happens over and over. I should change that and maybe write my own thing.
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Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.
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It is typical of Schumann's musical thinking to construct this complex network of references outside his music-to quote Beethoven, and then to have Beethoven's distant beloved refer to Clara. But this should give a clue to the nature of Schumann's achievement. It is not Schumann's music that, refers to Clara but Beethoven's melody, the 'secret tone.'
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You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo.
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My hair is very fine, so I use Tigi Bed Head Small Talk before I blow dry for volume, and I'm a firm believer in Tigi Rockaholic dry shampoo to keep volume throughout the day.
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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
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Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.
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My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
