Bernard Arnault Quotes
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.
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I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.
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Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved. It should be neutral. It shouldn't have a meaning in itself. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface.
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You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.
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From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
