"The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls."

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Source : Karen Karbo (2009). “The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman”, p.169, Rowman & Littlefield

Karen Karbo

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“War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”
“Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!”
“For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.”
“This whole business of all these lenses is ridiculous. You know, it's like you have to capture your picture. You have to create it. You have to see it. You have to seize it and you have to move in to get it, so those lenses are just an escape of some sort or a shield.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.
“The best version of comedy is when you can get to an issue where, at some point, you're not firmly on one side or the other, and you can see both sides. The more we become about the issues, the more successful we are.”
“I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.”
“I haven't stopped working hard since I was 15.”
“I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.”

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