Elie Tahari Quotes

#1. I worked in a boutique after work, my second job, selling women's clothes. And that was a way of not just making money but meeting women. That was very exciting job. I loved that job.

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#2. Financially I'm comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

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#3. Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

Jason Biggs

#4. It doesn't matter if it's raining and dark. The sun is shining above the clouds.

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#5. And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#6. If you love what you do, it won't be work.

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#7. The whole process of mental adjustment and atunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude

Wallace D. Wattles

#8. It's not about the outside, it's the inside. But dressing on the outside can help the inside.

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#9. After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

Ron Chernow

#10. Clothing should be quieter than the woman so that her true beauty can shine through.

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#11. Love is a key ingredient for creativity.

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#12. I got involved in fashion by accident. When I got to New York, my intention was to have enough money to eat and to stay and I don't have to leave. I just loved New York - the energy, the culture, the freedom.

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#13. I don't walk around feeling like I'm successful. I feel like I did well.

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#14. Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It's an animalistic instinct for survival.

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#15. I grew up in different orphanages in Israel, and if they gave me a pair of shoes, a shirt, and pair of pants every year, I was lucky. The rest was handouts, leftover clothes. So I appreciated clothes because I only had one new shirt each year.

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#16. Getting up in the morning and loving what you do is a dream come true.

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#17. Whatever energy you put out there, that's the energy you're going to get back.

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#18. Even a kick in the ass is good when you're facing the right direction.

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#19. Don't bring me problems. Bring me solutions.

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#20. The future is under no obligation to wait patiently while we get ready for it.

John Michael Greer

#21. If you like something, go for it.

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#22. You can only be connected to others if you are connected to yourself and the truth inside.

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#23. New York accepts everybody. It doesn't matter your sex, color, religion. Everybody works together to create a better life.

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#24. I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

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#25. An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

John Cassavetes

#26. Follow the truth to life and love what you do ... Be passionate about it to the point where you're willing to do anything for it.

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#27. Every day has its own challenges, and every day those challenges make us stronger.

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#28. Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.

Lucy Grealy

#29. Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

Neil Armstrong

#30. New York. Truly, this is the only city that I feel this energy. Everyone is accepted. This is the first place that I felt open and that I can do everything.

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