American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.

Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color.

Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.

Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

I think that in the end, the people are not fooled by promotion. They want to know that something works and is right.

I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.

Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.

People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.

I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.

When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.

I would say that it is a trait by which Americans, searching for things which are different or new, seem to recognize the gift that people may have that cause people do to things.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories for all our differences turn out if we listen well to be our stories also.

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

I am the most interesting book of all.

The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

Football is all about winning things as a team but it's also important to pick up individual awards along the way.