Azzedine Alaia Quotes
When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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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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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
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Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.
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Water-based life is very much an Earth-centric view, and we can push the envelope on that here in our own solar system. We have the methane seas of Titan.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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I've certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don't mind pulling from them and writing things down on my phone that my family says.
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When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.
