Addison Mizner Quotes
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The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.
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Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.
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Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
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Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
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Some of my college friends used to laugh at me. But no one's laughing anymore. Now, they all try to get free underwear.
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I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a cafe.
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No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.
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Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.
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There are few secrets in football. So execute.
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I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.
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'Bonnie and Clyde' was the first show and the first role that I got to originate. Being part of that from the ground up and investing three years of my life into seeing that show come to Broadway was really rigorous but also so exciting.
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A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.
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Aenea smiled but her eyes still glistened. 'Humans have been waiting for Jesus and Yahweh and E. T. to save their asses since before they covered those asses with bearskins and came out of the cave,' she said. 'They’ll have to keep waiting. This is our business...our fight...and we have to take care of it ourselves.'
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'Cause a costume can be comfortableIt can make you feel more beautifulIt can even make you look like someone elseBut it's still you, so there's nothing you can doLike a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always isAnd it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.
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Sometimes all you're looking for is an apology.
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I don't eat sushi, but I eat cooked meat.
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I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.
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I consider myself very fortunate. I mean, I think there's that old saying, 'Where there's a will, there's a way,' and I just have such a passion for jazz music and playing the piano that I just find a way to make it work, so to speak. Fortunately, I have so far.
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Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
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I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
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A cow couldn't find its calf in this room.
