Azzedine Alaia Quotes
I love American girls. They're audacious. They put more outrageous things on their bodies than anybody.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
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The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.
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I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
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The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
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Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
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When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.
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We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.
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Since I was a kid, I feel most confident when I'm reading.
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I think I've learned, really, just how to let go - if an idea doesn't work, or it's not perfect, that's O.K.
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Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
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The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.
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I love American girls. They're audacious. They put more outrageous things on their bodies than anybody.
