When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies.

The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us.

Work-life balance is not just a buzzy, self-help term that real business people laugh at. You need it.

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

I am like a lemon. I'm pressed for more juice. When I have fun, there's still juice. I am not dried up.

Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

Identity is the continuity in a personality that survives through various vicissitudes, through change.

The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.

Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem.

You learn a lot from your customers, and when your customers are also your owners, you learn even more.

I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

I'm usually at home and in bed by 10 o'clock. I do not want to be out at anybody's New Year's Eve party.

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

When my best friends doubt their little black dresses, they call me on the telephone seeking reassurance.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.

We need a Moneyball revolution in the NFL. We need Spread teams and Run and Shoot teams and Option teams.

If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.

I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we're being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.

The technology is not only the way we change stories, but also changing the relationship to the consumer.

Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

It used to be you could just write vaguely conservative things while running a Starbucks - now, you can't.

Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

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