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Designer Marc Jacobs ended his sixteen-year tenure at Louis Vuitton with a spring 2014 collection that celebrated fashion in its purest and least complicated form - as majestic, superficial beauty. - Robin Givhan
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It's impossible for an editor to know every source for every story. - Rebekah Brooks
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery. - Otto Penzler
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I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits. - Daniel Okrent
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It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity. - Peter Bart
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According to the Epilepsy Foundation of America, there are more than two million Americans with epilepsy. Half have what I have, idiopathic epilepsy, meaning there is no known cause for the seizures. - Kurt Eichenwald
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There isn't really a whole lot to know about me. - Sonny Mehta
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Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove. - Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly. - Rich Lowry
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I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in 'Publisher's Weekly,' and it looks like it will be dark, I'll track it down. - Ellen Datlow
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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him. - George Dennison Prentice
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The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better. - Diana Vreeland
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I don't think enough directors know enough about editing. - Thelma Schoonmaker
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The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs. - Nassau William Senior
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I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact that teachers generally aren't observed in their classrooms, they can do whatever they want in class. - Steven Levitt
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In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.' - Thomas J. Sargent
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The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world. - Gus O'Donnell
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During the three decades of its existence, the effectiveness of the United Nations has, on the whole, tended to decrease, particularly in the field of peace and security and, more generally, all issues in which the developed countries feel they have important stakes. - Gunnar Myrdal
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#Peace
#Security
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There is nothing remotely dignified about sorting through rotting trash to find something to feed your child, or asking someone for money because you have none (anyone who has contrived to give people money before they had to ask will never forget the look of gratitude in their eyes). - Abhijit Banerjee
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#Look
#Money
I don't personally consider myself Dr. Doom. I call myself Dr. Realist, even though it's less exciting and more boring than being called Dr. Doom. If you are consistently saying 'the world is going to end,' who is going to listen to you? - Nouriel Roubini
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The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important. - Marek Belka
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#Culture
#Important
#Live
#Why
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. - George Stigler
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work? - Gary Becker
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#Fighting
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#Women
#Work
My parents were admirers of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. Their parents and most of our relatives and neighbors were Republicans, so they were self-conscious in their liberalism and took it as emblematic of their ability to think for themselves. - Robert Lucas, Jr.
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I miss winning. I miss being on the podium. - Fernando Alonso
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Everyone has a job to do; that's how I see it. - Lance Stroll
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Just taking the front wing and saying that will make racing better, it's quite a naive and ultimately expensive approach. - Christian Horner
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#Expensive
#Naive
#Saying
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It's important for everyone to stand up for what they believe in. - Lewis Hamilton
#Believe
#Important
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Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not. - Heikki Kovalainen
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The team is very enthusiastic - everyone is trying hard to do their best, and everyone is putting a lot of effort in to moving forward and getting the right results and it's a very good, close-knit team. - David Leslie
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#Hard
#Moving Forward
It's been 23 years since the last Swede in Formula One, so for me to be the next F1 driver at all these races around the world has been amazing. - Marcus Ericsson
#Amazing
#F1
#Formula One
#Me
#World
I don't like to use 'I can't'. I don't look at my disability as a negative thing. - Billy Monger
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#Thing
#Use
I'm always responsible and a father, you want the best for your children. You push hard. You have to teach him things of life. - Jos Verstappen
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#Father
#Life
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To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity. - Jean Alesi
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#Honest
#I Am
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I really enjoy the football season. - Jimmie Johnson
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I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together. - Larry Dixon
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#Together
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So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race. - Alain Prost
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#Fact
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#Race
I've built my business around the No. 7. - Robby Gordon
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone. - Danica Patrick
#Chance
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#Me
#Memories
Why can't a woman be more like a man? - Alan Jay Lerner
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#More
#Why
#Woman
I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of rules before you start, and then being completely consistent with them, is the only way to make a really good film. - Susanne Bier
#Believe
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#Rules
#Start
#Way
Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you. - Rob Marshall
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For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just stark terror. - Chuck Lorre
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I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea. - Alain Resnais
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#Say
#Way
We have many Lisas, Marks, Dennys, Johnnys, and other characters from 'The Room' in America and in the entire world. - Tommy Wiseau
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#Other
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#World
I've always loved 'Alice,' and I've always loved Lewis Carroll. I love his kind of tone and his intelligence. - James Bobin
#Always
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#Loved
#Tone
They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing correct. It's futile beyond belief. I've never bought any, but I could watch those ads for 24 hours straight. People with straight faces saying this thing will take strokes off your game - that's my peculiar obsession. - Christopher Guest
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#Game
#Never
#People
#Will
The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller fences, tougher laws, tougher sentencing, handcuffs,' and where does that money come from? Well, immediately, it comes out of all the money needed for corrections. - Eugene Jarecki
#Laws
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#More
#Politicians
#Rhetoric
Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right. - Otto Preminger
#Directing
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#Like
#Needed
#Right
I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin. - Tobe Hooper
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The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program. - Mitchell Reiss
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#Nuclear Weapons
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Beyond the traditional areas of cooperation, we have entered the digital age with its own opportunities. The area of fintech needs to be explored. - Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
#Age
#Beyond
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#Digital
#Own
The best thing we can do to secure the future of the global system, trading system, is to redouble the efforts to improve the system, to reform the system. - Roberto Azevedo
#Best
#Future
#Global
#Secure
#System
I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship. - Bahman Ghobadi
#Atmosphere
#Censorship
#Film
#Music
The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony. - Hans Blix
#Cannot
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#Fear
#State
#Walls
Dad encouraged us to get jobs. He'd help us get a job if we knew what we wanted. - Jean Kennedy Smith
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Coming from a smaller nation in Central Europe, I have learned pretty soon how important are agreed rules, cooperation, respect for partners and, most of all, willingness to listen and find common solutions. - Miroslav Lajcak
#Find
#I Have Learned
#Respect
#Rules
And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. - Lord Robertson
#Choice
#Cruel
#Indifference
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#Will
The political parties have lost their loyalties. - Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
#Lost
#Political Parties
#Political
This is the good thing about commercials, is one week I'm working with Derek Cianfrance and the next week I'm working with another really good friend. - Greig Fraser
#About
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#Good
#Next
#Week
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
#Another
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#Go
#Shall
#Understand
Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust. - Mitchell Reiss
#Agreement
#Any
#Intentions
#Korea
#Trust
In political, strategic as well as economic and commercial areas, Singapore has become a fulcrum for India's policies east of India. - Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
#Become
#East
#Political
#Singapore
#Well
I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little. - Bahman Ghobadi
#Free
#Living
#Only
#People
#Young
As an American, you appreciate the importance of our security alliance, the importance of the economic ties between our two countries, and while I knew of the two bonds between our two people, until I came here, I didn't really appreciate how deep the people-to-people connections are between the American people and the Japanese people. - John Roos
#American
#People
#Security
#Two People
For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy. - Lord Robertson
#Economic
#Europe
#Leaders
#Military
#Out
Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again. - Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
#Back
#Come
#History
#Only
#Take
This is the great thing about my friends over at Lucasfilm: They are so committed to the highest quality product that they allow their DPs to come on well in advance of the shoot. - Greig Fraser
#Great
#Product
#Quality
#Shoot
#Well
Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die. - Safak Pavey
#Care
#Children
#Die
#Life
#Support
Sneakers are a new era. Anyone can feel new with a new pair of shoes. They make you feel contemporary. It's fun because I'm not a young designer, and it opens my brain. Hip-hop isn't just for the U.S. Everyone loves it. - Giuseppe Zanotti
#Brain
#Fun
#Hip-Hop
#New
#Shoes
Steam is probably the easiest to release on. - Peter Molyneux
#Easiest
#Release
#Steam
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous. - Sister Parish
#About
#Aunt
#Every
#Family
#Sentimental
I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way. - Giovanni Agnelli
#Believe
#I Believe That
#I Believe
#Way
I realised I was living in my own universe with lots of assistants. I didn't have a cell phone; I didn't know how to use a computer. Everybody was doing everything for me. So I left and moved to New York. It was the end of an era, and I must say I found myself a bit lost. I wasn't in the protected Mugler universe any more. - Thierry Mugler
#Cell Phone
#Lost
#Me
#Myself
#Universe
Seeing that 'Project Runway' sign at the end of the runway just made me, like, realize, like, 'Wow, I'm on this show. I'm living every designer's dream right now.' - Ashley Nell Tipton
#End
#Living
#Me
#Project
#Seeing
I don't have a complex mind. - Irving Harper
#Complex
#Mind
We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more. - Pierre Cardin
#Dress
#Men And Women
#Men
#More
#Women
There is the idea that, when we look at things, it is the yellow light that helps us the most, that we are the most sensitive for. But our circadian rhythms, which are the rhythms that help us to wake and sleep and be alert and relaxed and so forth and so on, they are much more triggered by blue light. - Rogier van der Heide
#Blue
#Light
#Look
#Sleep
#Us
My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes. - Lela Rose
#Biking
#Just
#Same
#Shoes
#Wardrobe
In 'Alpha Protocol,' right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences. - Chris Avellone
#Balance
#Decision
#Game
#Mission
#Path
I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world. - Mary McFadden
#Art
#India
#Like
#World
#Would
A simple scoop-neck leotard highlights a ballerina's swanlike neck and elegant posture, both rooted in a powerful core. - Mary Helen Bowers
#Neck
#Posture
#Powerful
#Rooted
#Simple
I have a major weakness for Oreo cookies and David Yurman jewelry. - Frankie Grande
#Cookies
#David
#Jewelry
#Major
#Weakness
So much is made about the beginnings of ballet careers, the rosebud, and then once the petals and leaves start falling off, is it beautiful anymore? Some people think it is; some people don't. The expectation is to focus on the very beautiful parts, not the ending. - Wendy Whelan
#Beautiful
#Ending
#Focus
#People
#Start
I used to perform with the Pussycat Dolls before Nicole Scherzinger, before they were a musical group. - Jaime Pressly
#Before
#Group
#Nicole
#Used
#Were
When you're a choreographer and you put so much into a routine that's emotionally driven, those are like my ideas and my little babies that I have here and then I put them out there and they're there to be judged and looked at. When it's all over, it's just such a relief. - Derek Hough
#Here
#Ideas
#Just
#Relief
#Routine
I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years. - Benjamin Millepied
#Dance
#Grow
#Ideas
#School
#Training
Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry. - Kyle Abraham
#Cry
#Me
#Music
#Passion
#Repeat
There are positives to moving around and changing companies: you put things in perspective; you can compare living and working conditions. Living in one city, you tend to take things for granted; your view is much more narrow. In Europe, a dancer can leave for a year and still keep her original contract. - Carla Korbes
#City
#Europe
#Living
#Perspective
#View
There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good. - Gelsey Kirkland
#Doing
#Good
#People
#Stage
#Trying
I own the complete DVD set of all the Audrey Hepburn movies ever made. - Yuan Yuan Tan
#Complete
#Made
#Movies
#Own
#Set
I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Gotham when I'm on set because I don't really like to break character, since I sometimes get distracted. I may get distracted when I'm talking to people and having fun; then I have to check myself. - Camren Bicondova
#Character
#Doing
#Fun
#Myself
#People
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods. - Stephen Bayley
#Age
#Experience
#Free
#Innocence
#World
Follow your passion. - Joel Siegel
#Follow
#Passion
#Your
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. - E. T. A. Hoffmann
#Always
#Come
#Improbable
#Pass
#Things
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. - Malcolm Cowley
#Been
#Chapel
#Copy
#Equivalent
#Would
Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church. - Dave Hickey
#Baptist
#Church
#Civility
#More
#Than
I just feel tired now if people are shocked. If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it. - Chris Morris
#Feel
#Now
#People
#Tired
#Watch
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. - James Agate
#Act
#Cannot
#Management
#Person
#Players
The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated. - Albert Murray
#Always
#Dance
#Embrace
#Human
#Survival
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