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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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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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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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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You can't go looking for another one of those franchises. You only ever get one of those. You get 'Stars Wars'; you get 'Indiana Jones' or get 'The Matrix.' I've had my franchise.
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I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.
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When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.
