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Olivier Theyskens

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LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

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OLIVIER THEYSKENS This scandal will get bigger before its finished.
LEO THEYSKENS It will absolutely not stop here. There are other clubs, players and individuals involved.
LEO THEYSKENS Our sponsors want to distance themselves from us and we have to respect that. But it has now cost us...
LEO THEYSKENS We just want to try and move forward in a positive fashion and get ourselves up the table. But in an...
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OLIVIER MARTINEZ I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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OLIVIER DAHAN I don't read the critics.
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OLIVIER DAHAN I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
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LAURENCE OLIVIER We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
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OLIVIER MAGNY If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
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OLIVIER LAPOINTE He went to buy cigarettes, went to the gas station, paid for them. Two men accepted the money.
OLIVIER LAPOINTE Business confidence has not advanced in France for three months and the gap in relation to Germany i...
OLIVIER GASNIER Given how remarkably strong some sectors were last month seasonally adjusted, IT was a little bit di...
ROBERT OLIVIER La gloire, c'est comme la gouache, ça prend très vite puis ça part à la première goutte de plui...
OLIVIER WEBER Nous sommes tous des naufragés de l'âme vois-tu, la peinture n'est que le reflet de ce chagrin, an...
OLIVIER WEBER He said aloud what everybody everywhere now says.
OLIVIER ROY We've turned into a possession team. That's what good teams do. To be honest, we learned that from S...
KATHY OLIVIER Of course, there's only one person who stabbed the victim. They were not all holding the knife. But ...
OLIVIER LAPOINTE If you are a youngster in the French suburbs, your mates are second-generation Muslim immigrants and...
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OLIVIER MESSIAEN Ascension He has gone away, the Well-Beloved, For our sake! He is risen, the Well-Beloved, For our s...
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LAURENCE OLIVIER Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms...
LAURENCE OLIVIER We're quite confident now that the (Kyoto) protocol is saved.
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EDITH OLIVIER Il n’est pire exil que celui du coeur
OLIVIER WEBER It takes wearing your heart on your sleeve to a whole new level.
MARC OLIVIER You wouldn't let a salesman in, but the message was allowed in through the radio.
MARC OLIVIER The one who has the remote has the power.
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KATHY OLIVIER Life on the road, it's not fun in the Pac-10. We're out of sync right now and Stanford is playing we...
KATHY OLIVIER Noelle does so many positive things. She's a young lady who just acts like a champion, during good t...
KATHY OLIVIER Lisa is playing the best I've ever seen her play. She's doing that by taking better shots, and her s...
KATHY OLIVIER Those kids don't play like freshmen. They want the ball and don't shy away from contact.
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KATHY OLIVIER The moment of truth is approaching.
OLIVIER DELEUZE The drop in industrial capital goods is a disappointment - I hope it's just an accident.
OLIVIER GASNIER Thirty years ago, you joined the Maoists, the Trotskyists, the far left, the Baader group, Action Di...
OLIVIER ROY He was just too good. If you are going to beat him, you have to beat him in the first round. He gets...
OLIVIER ROCHUS Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it th...
LAURENCE OLIVIER No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER I have to act to live.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic d...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR Without acting I cannot breathe.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperam...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the ...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR I like Paris. My problem is I don't like Parisians."
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperam...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR It's just like a nursery game of make-believe.
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LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR Without acting I cannot breathe.
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OLIVIER A. BLANCHARD Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR