Diane von Furstenberg Quotes

All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.

Diane von Furstenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
  • Nationality: belgian
  • Birth: December 31, 1946

Topics

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I think that all men and women both, particularly women, hold back on parts of ourselves because they don't fit into the traditional workplace model.

Jennifer Palmieri

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Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.

Melissa Bean

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I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

John Malkovich

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I match up with the best guys in the world. I'm not being cocky; it's just always how I felt. But I got into trouble as soon as I got into the NBA, and it left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.

Michael Beasley

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I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have the darkness in my own soul to be able to tap into it, unfortunately.

Stephen Merchant

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Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

Tom Wolfe

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I'm not from aristocracy, or anything like that.

Michelle Dockery

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I always get nervous when I watch what I'm in. Very self-critical.

Michael Socha

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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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It's no secret that many tales of tween stardom have had unhappy endings.

Chris Connelly

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I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I did invent the idea of using lucid dreaming to treat sleep disorders, but I was influenced by many real-life researchers - from forefathers like Freud and Jung to Stephen Laberge and Rosalind Cartwright, who explore lucid dreaming and parasomnias.

Chloe Benjamin

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