“I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant.”
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“Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.”
“Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.”
“I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.”
“There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left.”
“I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.”
“In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.”
“Some people would like me to be round again.”
“People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.”
“I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.”
“I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail, every proportion, every cut -- everything.”
“The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.”
“Religion is the balm of the people.”
“There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.”
“As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .”
“Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.”
“When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.”
“Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them.”
“I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.”
“It might sound silly to some people, but if anybody wants to spend time to go out and glide on waves, it just feels like they have an appreciation for the joy of life and must be an okay person.”