Elie Saab Quotes
I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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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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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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I often do things that surprise me, not to mention others.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward – I ask for no reward – only to live & to hear my work.
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The role of the speaker of the House is to deliver enough votes by understanding and accommodating the individual bottom lines of enough members to pass the bill.
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I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.
