"Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are"
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"We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves."
"Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying."
"Engaging people is about meeting their needs, not yours"
"I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same."
"Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits."
"An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one."
"The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand."
"Remembrance is a form of meeting."
"Taking 1,000 meetings attempting to get backing to do clothing."
"The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting."
"When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative."
"It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say."
"Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced."
"Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground."
"I love meeting people and helping them."
"Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec."
"If you can intuit well, you're essentially meeting the future faster."
"Death is a meeting place of sea and sea."
"The spirit of love arranges all meetings in divine order for the highest good of all concerned."
"It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image."