Coco Chanel Quotes

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

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• The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Brain
  • Sometimes
  • Creative

• There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • High
  • Head
  • Count

• There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Picture

• You can find love when you are famous if you are the same person you were before you were famous.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Person
  • Famous
  • Find

• Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Time
  • Failure

• A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Reason alone does not suffice.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Alone

• I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Responsibility

• When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • American
  • Red

• If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

  

  Polykarp Kusch
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Witty

• I don't read reviews, but I do get feedback from my peers and people I know, like other actors and directors and producers.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • People

• But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely.

  

  Allen Weinstein
  • Daily

• When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached a very high and interesting level, and then lines and stanzas will just kind of appear, full-blown.

  

  Franz Wright
  • Up
  • High
  • Interesting

• The Brewers Association, a trade group of some 2000 small and independent brewers, was founded in 2005 to be a 'passionate voice for craft brewers' and craft beer, and it has made itself as vocal as the bigger Beer Institute.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Small
  • Independent
  • Beer

• One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants - one of the reasons restaurant critics are the real heroes - is that whenever anyone has a grievance about any aspect of the business, they tell you about it.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Real
  • Business

• I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • School
  • Design

• An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

  

  Dee Hock
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Proud
  • Player
  • Sports

• Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Architecture
  • Form

• Once you know what you want and what is important for you to achieve, also define the values associated with it. What is important? That is something a lot of entrepreneurs pass by too quickly. For us, the things that were important were, No. 1, customer success. Nothing is more important to us than making sure every customer is successful in our service.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Important
  • Success
  • Service

• Luckily, you don't have to inject growth hormone to burn fat and build muscle. All you have to do is train anaerobically. But you do have to understand that you only begin to exercise anaerobically when you are at levels in excess of 90 percent of your maximum heart rate. This is pretty hard work. It's also why world-class sprinters and swimmers are heavily muscled and at the same time very lean—they train anaerobically.

  

  Barry Sears
  • Exercise
  • Hard Work
  • Sprinter

• I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I've always come back and I've started to trust myself.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Feelings
  • Criticism
  • Failing

• Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

  

  Coco Chanel
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  • Coco Chanel
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