Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body."
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Pieces
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Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me."
John F. Kennedy
Politician
"I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds."
Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life."
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"The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction"
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"The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy."
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"Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust."
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"The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you."
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"I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own."
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"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."
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"A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make."
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"You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world."
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"I dont want a broken heart because Ill lose the pieces."
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"The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work."
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"Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves."
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"The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates."
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"You must be willing to take whatever pieces of life come your way and arrange them so that they work with and for you rather than against you. The key is to be willing. The willingness to arrange rather than complain or make excuses will pay off."
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"If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!"
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"Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore."
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"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."
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"What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography."
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"This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me."
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"The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't."
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"You can't kill the past by denying the past. You can kill it only by making it obsolete. And even in that, you have to find honor in the past. You can't hack off pieces of yourself, and expect them to grow again."
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