What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.
What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
People need to differentiate us from companies like Yahoo! and Facebook that collect your data and have it sitting on their servers. We want to know as little about our users as possible.
I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.
I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.
I know there are limits to what a coach can accomplish in improving speechmaking unless the subject is a diligent student of himself.
We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.
I write 100% of my material by myself. Thatβs really important to me because I donβt want what Iβm trying to say to be diluted by anyone that might not know my circumstance or who I am as a person.
Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
'Fine dining.' I'd love to know who coined the term and whether they meant it to be as offputting as it is. The words evoke an idea of phoney refinement, of needless flummery, snooty waiters, and an atmosphere designed to intimidate the customer.
I wanna buy vinyl and I want to listen to records on it. I want to put on 'Dark Side of the Moon' in the dining room while I'm eating pasta or whatever. You know what I mean.
There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.
We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.
My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a - I don't know the English word - like a passage.
