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"I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention."
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Calvin Klein
"I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention."
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"We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it."
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Marc Jacobs
"We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it."
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"Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul."
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Donna Karan
"Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul."
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"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."
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Charles Eames
"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."
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"Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe."
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Bill Blass
"Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe."
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"King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players."
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Roberta Williams
"King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players."
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"I don't think about my fame very much."
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Calvin Klein
"I don't think about my fame very much."
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"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."
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Christian Lacroix
"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."
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"They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims."
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Ralph Lauren
"They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims."
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"My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!"
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Calvin Klein
"My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!"
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"I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will."
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Shigeru Miyamoto
"I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will."
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"We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more."
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Pierre Cardin
"We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more."
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"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."
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Freeman Thomas
"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."
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"Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat."
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Mike Davidson
"Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat."
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"Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America."
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"You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you."
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Calvin Klein
"You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you."
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"Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor."
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Coco Chanel
"Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor."
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"If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work."
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"I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first."
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"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
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Charles Eames
"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
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"If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties."
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Calvin Klein
"If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties."
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"We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records."
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Vivienne Westwood
"We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records."
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"If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body."
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"My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way."
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Donald McKay
"My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way."
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"Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable."
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Donna Karan
"Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable."
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"Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up."
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"The bump I was trying to hide could be the future king of England."
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Bruce Oldfield
"The bump I was trying to hide could be the future king of England."
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"I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous."
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Calvin Klein
"I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous."
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"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."
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Christian Lacroix
"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."
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"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."
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Donatella Versace
"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."
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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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Isaac Mizrahi
"This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it."
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"I don't trust a lot of journalists."
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Calvin Klein
"I don't trust a lot of journalists."
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"Everything in life... has to have balance."
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Donna Karan
"Everything in life... has to have balance."
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"It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion."
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Donna Karan
"It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion."
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"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."
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Geoffrey Beene
"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."
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"You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing."
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"No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales."
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Calvin Klein
"No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales."
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"I design for the woman who loves being a woman."
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Diane von Furstenberg
"I design for the woman who loves being a woman."
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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."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"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."
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"What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do."
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Shigeru Miyamoto
"What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do."
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"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."
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Christian Lacroix
"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."
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"When we first sort of break in or bust into the house, if you will, there's some tough love."
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Thom Filicia
"When we first sort of break in or bust into the house, if you will, there's some tough love."
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"It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister."
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Sister Parish
"It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister."
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"We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through."
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Donna Karan
"We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through."
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"As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that."
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Vera Wang
"As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that."
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"There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it."
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Calvin Klein
"There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it."
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"The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing."
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"The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that."
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Tom Ford
"The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that."
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"Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful."
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Giovanni Agnelli
"Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful."
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"Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy."
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