Coco Chanel Quotes
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Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
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I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.
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I feel like if you see five films not knowing who made them, you know which one is the Coen Brothers.
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When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.
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We are not occupying Afghanistan, we are there as guests of a government, at their request.
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All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so be as clear as you can. And even if it's only to leave it to the cat's home, make a will.
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I'm not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.
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Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
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There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!
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I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.
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My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.
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In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.
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Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
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Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.
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I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.
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I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm doing and I think, 'God, I've never seen anything like that before!' And that's a real thrill.
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I'm such an action movie junkie that as an action fan, because action scenes are so heightened, we could never really picture ourselves in that scene. So when you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium: you know you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there.
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I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.
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The mind can be our best friend and advocate in getting what we want in life, or it can pull the brakes on and be a nasty little foe – the choice is yours – choose your attitude.
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Photography is space, light, texture, of course, but the really important element is time - that nanosecond when the image organizes itself on the ground glass.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.
