Carolina Herrera Quotes

The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.

Carolina Herrera

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The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.

John Grant

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It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.

Andrea Jung

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Hollywood is something else. It's such an exaggerated idea. The concept of what 'beautiful' really is is ludicrous.

Amanda Schull

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I have tender feelings for Nixon because everybody has warm feelings about their childhood. Actually, I didn't like the Watergate trials 'cause they interrupted 'The Munsters.'

Stephen Colbert

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If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

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My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.

Roberta Williams

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As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Rodman Philbrick

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I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me.

Michael Lee-Chin

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The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children carrying an enormous glass jar up some stairs in the dark. In the jar is a tusked beflippered creature floating in brine.

Mini Grey

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The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.

Jaron Lanier

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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.

Douglas Wood

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