Coco Chanel Quotes
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
Quotes to Explore
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
Parker Posey
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
Victoria Woodhull
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The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.
Pankaj Mishra
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.'
Rahm Emanuel
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
W. G. Sebald
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You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
Fernando Botero
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My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.
Orlando Bloom
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Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.
Malaika Arora Khan
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When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.
Olivia De Havilland
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I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
Maeve Binchy
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Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
Walter Isaacson
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A covetous man's penny is a stone.
Bill Vaughan
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Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
Daniel Barber
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Cubism is moving around an object to seize several successive appearances, which fused in a single image, reconstitute it in time.
Juan Gris
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I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and angular. But now, society has bought 55 years of my marketing 'Carmen,' and I'm considered beautiful. I hope that empowers older women.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
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But I do believe there are certain principles that are universal. I think that all people want basic dignity and want basic freedom, and want to be able to worship as they please without being discriminated against, or they should be able to speak their mind about an important issue pertaining to their community without being arrested.
Barack Obama
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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
