Marie-Chantal Claire Quotes
I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I've been things and seen places.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
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If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
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Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.
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I think 'Amazing Race' is sometimes like being on tour.
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If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all time.
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It's important to accept your body for what God gave you.
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I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.
