A Quote by Don Rickles
When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.
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You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.
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Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
You're taught that you need to please magazines, to please the fashion elite, and that if you do everything the right way, everyone is going to love you. But I decided not to follow some of the rules. My girls from the runway were not just models - they were soldiers. They helped me bring my ideas to life. I was talking about sexiness, about diversity, about different shapes of bodies. I was following my instincts and learning that it would not please the fashion elite. And I think this is the real luxury, to be free to express yourself. Freedom is luxury to me.
It is very different trying to help a community organization than trying to sell yourself or sell a product.
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