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“Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design we have created a beautiful dress for Catherine on her wedding day.”
Source : "Sarah Burton Speaks About Her Role as Kate's Wedding Dress Designer" by Veronique Hyland, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 29, 2011.
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“Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.”
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“The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed because it leads to rampant immorality, on both the personal and political scales. The basic cause of this immorality is atheism.”
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“I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit? Years later, the dean of students at Harvard told me that my letter had been posted in the dean’s office for the amusement of the staff. Thus did I learn the measure of institutional arrogance.”
Source : J. Michael BISHOP (2009). “How to Win the Nobel Prize”, p.43, Harvard University Press
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“The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.”
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“Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.”
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“I wrote it alone, for him, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something which might interest a man like him.”
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“Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.”