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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• I've been things and seen places.

  

  Mae West
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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.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
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• There's definitely something transformative about clothes.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.

  

  Orson Pratt
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  • Desire

• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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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.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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• I think a great athlete transcends eras.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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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.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Time
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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.

  

  Zaha Hadid
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• I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

  

  Gayle Forman
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• Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

  

  Mary Garden

• Ultimately, the problem is that sex is perceived as a personal, intimate thing, not in the realm of science. But that's not true. It's physiology; it's anatomy. It deserves to be studied.

  

  Mary Roach
  • True
  • Science
  • Sex

• A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

  

  Jessamyn West

• The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.

  

  George Crook
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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.

  

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