Azzedine Alaia Quotes

I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire history of the kings of France. And I was fascinated by Versailles.

Azzedine Alaia

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
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  • Birth: February 26, 1940

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Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

John Burnside

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Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

Andre Benjamin

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In the world of opinion writing, there's something called the 'to be sure' paragraph. A sort of rhetorical antibiotic, it seeks to defend against critics by injecting a tiny bit of counter-argument before moving on with the main point.

Meghan Daum

Moving OnMovingWritingWorldPoint

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Joyce Carol Oates

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My earliest memories of holidays are from when I was about eight. We lived in Pennsylvania, and every year we'd visit Miami.

Jay Parini

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Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

Jose Manuel Barroso

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I'm glad I don't live in Primrose Hill any more. I couldn't even walk through the park. You never invite that kind of attention.

Jonny Lee Miller

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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Douglas Adams

FlyGroundOrderMissMustSimply

To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have.

Chuck Schumer

GoodHealthCareAmericaHelpWill

What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

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For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people.

Sela Ward

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