Diane von Furstenberg Quotes

I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.

Diane von Furstenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.

John Updike

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At the end of the day, VCs have to provide their limited partners with great returns, or they aren't going to be able to raise another fund.

Steve Blank

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I wrote probably my phattest banging record with Knife Party: 'Pile Driver.'

Steve Aoki

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By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was the dawn of a new golden age of the American Novel, like the Hemingway-Dos Passos-Fitzgerald era after World War I.

Tom Wolfe

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Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.

Mary Pilon

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There are definitely some nights where the show is over, and you're on the bus or a hotel room, and it's sort of a shock to go from being in the atmosphere of a club or a theater and be at your own show to being by yourself in a hotel room.

Jason Isbell

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I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

Jason Patric

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I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

Dick Cheney

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I grew up with 'best-of' cassettes. My first Smiths record was 'Hatful Of Hollow,' and I had hits albums by Elton John and The Cars.

Brandon Flowers

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The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.

Arne Glimcher

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Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil picture now owned by the Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee, called 'Hark! the Lark.'

Winslow Homer

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I think I got my education as a young boy from things I saw on TV.

Percelle Ascott

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