Coco Chanel Quotes
I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.
Quotes to Explore
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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A good leader must be fair.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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I was in Barcelona working with Shakira, and it was an amazing experience. She's a great artist, and I learned a lot while working with her.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
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The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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Each season I try to incorporate something new that corresponds to the timing and the trends in everyday fashion.
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I love European films in general. If I were to go to the movie store or something, that's what I like to see.
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There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We see them on magazine covers so often that we think we know them intimately, and we want to learn more. I like to burst that bubble a little.
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Presume not that I am the thing I was.
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I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.
