Andre Balazs famous quotes
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One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.
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Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.
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You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.
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I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.
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All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.
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I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.
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Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
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I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.
-- Andre Balazs
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And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.
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To be without health insurance in this country means to be without access to medical care. But health is not a luxury, nor should it be the sole possession of a privileged few. We are all created b'tzelem elohim - in the image of God - and this makes each human life as precious as the next. By 'pricing out' a portion of this country's population from health care coverage, we mock the image of God and destroy the vessels of God's work.
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When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.
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I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us.
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.
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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.
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A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
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Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.
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