"Why the hell wouldn't you want to be one of the fabulous people, the life enhancers, who look interesting andÂ smell luscious and who dare to be gorgeously more fascinating than their neighbors?"

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Source : Simon Doonan (2009). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

Simon Doonan

#Smell Quotes #Interesting Quotes #People Quotes

“People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.”
“Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind”
“In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.”
“It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.162, Univ of California Press
“I sincerely believe that Indians have the ability to compete with the best in the world.”
“Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.”
“It's like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.”

Source : Song: Mo Money Mo Problems, Album: Life After Death
“Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary of Gypsy communication and behavior. It is at the heart of an essential transformation, a transcended state, an escape from the realities of their daily lives to a more satisfying state of mind.”

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