Azzedine Alaia Quotes
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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Women drive box office.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.
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'The Voice' ignited a fire in me to be an artist and to be a country singer, but not winning ignited an even bigger fire, because I was just like, 'First of all, I know that I want this'; now I wanted it even more, 'cause I didn't know if I had a record deal.
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My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
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Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah. It is only by our connection to our Creator that we rise or fall in life, in our relationship with our world—and with all of humanity.
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Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.
