Francoise Giroud famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.
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You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.
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Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth
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Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.
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Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.
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Being a professional ... is making fewer mistakes than others, as few as possible.
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Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.
-- Francoise Giroud
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When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.
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You're my all-in Della. I'll throw it all away for you. I just want you. I'm all in, baby. This life with you, I'm planning on us.
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I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.
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What were you going to do with it?†McCain asked. "I just thought it might come in useful.†"Were you planning to attack me?†"No. But that’s a good idea.
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.
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When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.
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You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.
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