Coco Chanel Quotes
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.
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I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
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The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
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Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.
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I am a Republican because of my military background, my pro-life beliefs, my support for the Second Amendment, and my belief that government should not grow excessively.
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I like to make songs that are based on concepts.
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There's nothing like success.
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The corporate Catch-22: Don't be flexible, lose good women; be flexible, lose good women... A company listening to women's desires for flexibility and therefore fewer promotions, giving fewer promotions to women, and then being sued for giving fewer promotions to women. Yiddish has a word for this: chutzpah.
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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
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It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.
