Coco Chanel Quotes
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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I know all the critics.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.
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The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have no idea about.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
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The worse a woman feels, the better should she look.
