Oscar de la Renta Quotes

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

Oscar de la Renta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
  • Nationality: dominican
  • Birth: July 22, 1932 - October 20, 2014

Topics

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My mother named me after her favorite actor, Joel McCrea, and dressed and presented me as her avatar. I'm sure she wanted to be a performer, but when that was impossible, I was her next best shot.

Joel Grey

MotherBestMeImpossibleDressed

I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?

Jeremy Clarkson

MotherChildrenI CanWhyDirtOut

I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle.

Melvyn Bragg

YouSeriouslyTryTakeGoingBerlin

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

Michael Gambon

CarMoreDifficultAlwaysExpensive

I'm very business-minded. I think that's something that sets me aside from other drag queens.

Trixie Mattel

MeThinkDragSomethingI Think

Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.

Molly Ivins

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How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Lou Reed

ArtRealityLearnArtistVanityHow

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

Louise Bourgeois

WorkI AmBloodRealI Was Raised

Beginning in the late 18th century, some German scholars began to regard Holy Scripture not as a single revelation but a sequence of inspired texts that occurred in specific times and places and were subject to varied and multiple meanings.

Jay Parini

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I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or musician.

Jason Isbell

ThinkArtistCountryPersonSinger

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Annabelle Selldorf

QuestionEverythingOrderlyOne Thing

The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me.

Pope Benedict XVI

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