Azzedine Alaia Quotes
Women must know themselves better than anyone. If you have ugly legs, wear long dresses. If you have long, great legs, show them.
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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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When you work for DC, it's sort of like working for the CIA. You have a vow of silence.
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
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On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
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Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
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Women must know themselves better than anyone. If you have ugly legs, wear long dresses. If you have long, great legs, show them.
