Bernard Arnault Quotes
People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a corner by a whole series of contingencies.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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Good design is good business.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
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I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.
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People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a corner by a whole series of contingencies.
