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 feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize: I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.
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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
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The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved.
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It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.
