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"This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it."

"Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America."

"You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think."

"In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything."

"All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels."

"The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be."

"What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!"

"I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure."
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