Carmen Dell'Orefice quote: "I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage."

There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without ...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look at 70. 'Retireme...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citi...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you&#...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, &...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was ...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in betwee...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

There's always a boyfriend. Whatever else I have to give up on, I won't give up on love.
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

We're all works of art in progress.
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous t...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American c...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it w...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

I've grown up in the lap of the world.
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

I was the one who kept telling my second husband he should become a cinematographer. I paid for him ...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

I exercise every day. I don't get up and have a cup of coffee anymore, I get up and move to get ...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Bec...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hat...
TAWNI O'DELL

And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually sta...
KATHLEEN O'DELL

Why would she want to come back here and live?' I wondered. 'Doesn't seem like she'd want to.'
...
TAWNI O'DELL

They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look ...
SCOTT O'DELL

Qué pena que cuando los gobiernos deciden entrar en una guerra no puedan coger a sus ejércitos y p...
TAWNI O'DELL

I want to love you, I want to trust you, but I'm scared. Will you catch me? Will you always be there...
CARMEN

By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have p...
ADAM DELL

The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, bu...
ADAM DELL

The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to...
ADAM DELL

One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortun...
ADAM DELL

If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achiev...
ADAM DELL

There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums,...
FLOYD DELL

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
FLOYD DELL

Dell's a company that has changed the IT landscape in making PCs and servers more affordable. Th...
MICHAEL DELL

Rural technology is moving from kind of the back office to where everything, every company - sales, ...
MICHAEL DELL

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships...
MICHAEL DELL

I think it is going to be very difficult to be a company in silos. I think the game has changed. We ...
MICHAEL DELL

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You ju...
MICHAEL DELL

It could be better than the Barnett. It's in the early days, and I don't think the investment commun...
BEN DELL

The risk appears greatest for the gas names that have outperformed considerably over the last 12 mon...
BEN DELL

You will see more maintenance at refineries and a cut in runs, which ultimately will lead to less ga...
BEN DELL

The supply-demand balance is shifting. This is clearly the case with gasoline, and now things are ge...
BEN DELL

I suspect you may see some slowing up if you go down to $5 gas in the next month. That will be a goo...
BEN DELL

Three years out, they can recover much of the cash outlay.
BEN DELL

If I come to Aspen for one or two nights, I stay at the St. Regis.
MICHAEL DELL

I was in seventh grade math class, and we had this thing called Number Sense. So, I wasn't on th...
MICHAEL DELL

There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums,...
FLOYD DELL

One of the biggest challenges we face today is finding managers who can sense and respond to rapid s...
MICHAEL DELL

In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that...
MICHAEL DELL

People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be h...
MICHAEL DELL

These experiences, and others from my previous postings, have convinced me that American engagement ...
CHRISTOPHER DELL

When you found a company, you feel a deep sense of responsibility for it. I'll care about Dell e...
MICHAEL DELL

I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization.
MICHAEL DELL

The world got enamored with smartphones and tablets, but what's interesting is those devices don...
MICHAEL DELL

It's Darwin. We were forced to do things, based on the resources we had, that were more efficient, s...
MICHAEL DELL

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
MICHAEL DELL

The Internet is probably the most significant thing that has come along,
MICHAEL DELL

All companies use servers of various sizes. Servers represent a disproportionate amount of profit op...
MICHAEL DELL

People consume information better with their eyes,
MICHAEL DELL

I would like to see this become a Bourbon Street, where it's not only entertainment, it's where peop...
DAN DELL

People assume that the executive branch has more power than it actually has. Only the legislative br...
MICHAEL DELL

What we are trying to do is appeal to customers with technological experience.
MICHAEL DELL

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at...
MICHAEL DELL

Americans are known for their strength, fortitude, and generosity in times of need. We encourage peo...
MICHAEL DELL

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like t...
MICHAEL DELL

The third quarter is going great and there is no change in our outlook from what we said at the end ...
MICHAEL DELL

I was surprised to see IBM's level of competition, ... That's something we haven't seen from them in...
MICHAEL DELL

In the near term, this is not good news
MICHAEL DELL

we are well on our way to our goal of 50 percent online - and actually think that after 50 percent i...
MICHAEL DELL

Clearly there is some turmoil and confusion out there that can help us out in the near term,
MICHAEL DELL

This was made in North Carolina, so you've got some really good stuff here, ... I think you'll be se...
MICHAEL DELL

I'm thrilled to be here. This operation will be the foundation of great success here.
MICHAEL DELL

It also means their job is constantly changing because technology is changing and this is a customer...
MICHAEL DELL

Our business continued to grow profitably in all customer segments and regions around the world,
MICHAEL DELL

If we get half the performance in the next couple of years, I'll be happy,
MICHAEL DELL

We believe there is a strong commitment at the highest levels of government, now we need to make it ...
MICHAEL DELL

During the first half of fiscal 1998, demand remained solid. The top companies have been consolidati...
MICHAEL DELL

We believe standardization has helped both Dell and our customers,
MICHAEL DELL

The open-source collaborative development model, I believe, is built to succeed in the Internet age,...
MICHAEL DELL

It's not the right time to do it now, but stay tuned,
MICHAEL DELL

The old industry approach was proprietary technology and vertical service solutions, ... Customers n...
MICHAEL DELL

We don't sell the database, period,
MICHAEL DELL

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,
MICHAEL DELL

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows o...
MICHAEL DELL

As we come to the end of the calendar year, industry conditions remain healthy, ... Processor and op...
MICHAEL DELL

The Zimbabwe government's own gross mismanagement of the economy and its corrupt rule has brought on...
CHRISTOPHER DELL

I can predict things. I can improve the uptime and the reliability. I can intervene and cause a bett...
MICHAEL DELL

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our...
MICHAEL DELL

that are not connected to the regime leaders are free to do business with American firms.
CHRISTOPHER DELL

These experiences, and others from my previous postings, have convinced me that American engagement ...
CHRISTOPHER DELL

No wrongs are righted; the rule of law in a shambles,
CHRISTOPHER DELL

Neither drought nor sanctions are at the root of Zimbabwe's decline.
CHRISTOPHER DELL

We're not going to provide any visibility beyond what we provided for the first quarter.
MICHAEL DELL

Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of ...
FLOYD DELL

We see a healthy industry in the year ahead, ... Major demand drivers, including processor transitio...
MICHAEL DELL

You know in today's business world if you get behind in your e-mail you fall out of touch very quick...
MICHAEL DELL

These devices are not necessarily substitutes to the PC, but complementary. You can't find a Palm Pi...
MICHAEL DELL

although Dell is executing well amid weak demand, we remain cautious on Dell given sharply lower IT ...
MICHAEL DELL

That's an astonishing reversal of 52 years of progress in only half a dozen years,
CHRISTOPHER DELL

It's customers that made Dell great in the first place, and if we're smart enough and quick enough t...
MICHAEL DELL

In this context, what is truly important...is the growing recognition that Zimbabwe has already pass...
CHRISTOPHER DELL

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.
MICHAEL DELL

VMWare, as you know, remains a public company, and Secure Works is also a public company. And it'...
MICHAEL DELL

We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't ...
MICHAEL DELL

Real entrepreneurs have what I call the three Ps (and, trust me, none of them stands for 'permis...
MICHAEL DELL

Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run '...
MICHAEL DELL

She was so sweet. Anything you needed, Mother Stiles was there for you.
DELL WATT

That dog never did anything like this.
DELL WATT

He never attacked anybody. He never attacked her. I don't know what happened.
DELL WATT

She's like a mother to me. She treats me like a daughter. She was sweet, sweet. Lord, she was a swee...
DELL WATT

I'll never forget any of those kids. They've done so much more for our program than just win basketb...
DELL LEONARD

Although you'd like to do it in your career, it's not always about getting a ring and a state champi...
DELL LEONARD

I'm totally speechless. We didn't play very well at times, but when it came down to crucial moments ...
DELL LEONARD

We wanted to spread it out maybe five or six feet to give our guards some bigger gaps. If we got up ...
DELL LEONARD

We've won some big games at the line this year, and we've lost some at the line. We know how importa...
DELL LEONARD

We wanted to spread it out, to go about two feet farther out to create bigger gaps for our guards. W...
DELL LEONARD

We'll find out how well we're playing Friday night.
DELL LEONARD

Obviously as well as our kids can shoot it at times, if we can just take care of the ball we're goin...
DELL LEONARD

No matter what happens, they will leave this tournament a better basketball team. They're as capable...
DELL LEONARD

Bergman is loaded, they have so many kids that can do some many things. The thing about Bergman is t...
DELL LEONARD

It's like they say, the basket just looks bigger. It's like all you have to do is get the ball start...
DELL CURRY

There are a lot of guys who can take them.
DELL CURRY

Hot Soup, I just remember it, great play, great name. They started calling it for me when Dee Brown ...
DELL CURRY

Dell will participate in tablets and all sorts of client devices. Our main business is helping our c...
MICHAEL DELL

There are many different kinds of PCs. You have fixed, virtual, tablets, notebooks, ultrabooks, desk...
MICHAEL DELL

I can't ever remember being struck by lightning when making a big decision. It's always abou...
MICHAEL DELL

If you think about computing, there isn't just one way to compute, just like there's not jus...
MICHAEL DELL

We just need people to give it a second chance to say hey come back and see what we're doing.
DAN DELL

Drove some of the businesses completely out of business, immediately sales were off 90 percent.
DAN DELL

When we acquired Secureworks, if we had taken it and made all the salespeople into Dell salespeople,...
MICHAEL DELL

Three dollars is too much. I think that's when people will start to do something about it.
FRANK DELL

It's about having a strategy that connects with your specific consumer. Traditional grocers are sayi...
FRANK DELL

The idea of a grocery store for all people in a major area hasn't made sense in years. The volume is...
FRANK DELL

But when you try to out-Wal-Mart Wal-Mart, how dumb are you? I tell people to quit playing that game...
FRANK DELL

This project was designed to recognized the contributions of the many women in our community.
JAN DELL

There are so many pioneering families in our city. It's going to be our job to decide which informat...
JAN DELL

What I'm looking to do is get the community involved and see their family's history preserved here.
JAN DELL

Hey, you’re the one who can’t stand me being so close to you.
JUSTINE DELL

She loved this man. This wonderful, respectiful, willful man. And she couldn’t even tell him.
JUSTINE DELL

Her heart unfolded in her chest, took in all of him, and closed tightly, unwilling to let him go
JUSTINE DELL

His presence was stirring heat in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons.
JUSTINE DELL

…she was afraid of how he made her feel, because he made her feel way too much
JUSTINE DELL

What’s bothering me is you always seem ready to snap my head off my shoulders and I’m not comfor...
JUSTINE DELL

Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it.
CARMEN MIRANDA

I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they'r...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd u...
CARMEN ELECTRA

My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which w...
CARMEN BUSQUETS

I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you&#...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American c...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.
CARMEN ELECTRA

Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adven...
CARMEN ELECTRA

I was the one who kept telling my second husband he should become a cinematographer. I paid for him ...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous t...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all...
CARMEN MIRANDA

I have a constant sweet tooth, so I like anything from the bakery, like cupcakes, cookies.
CARMEN ELECTRA

If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny litt...
CARMEN ELECTRA

My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had gr...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without ...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was ...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body.
CARMEN MIRANDA

When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off...
CARMEN BUSQUETS

Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disa...
CARMEN EJOGO

By putting on another's skin, I have a sense of what it's like to be black.
CARMEN WURGEL

I was a little naive thinking how fun it was going to be to live with another family, to learn about...
CARMEN WURGEL

I got a window just to peek into a world I never had access to.
CARMEN WURGEL

There were some moments that were true but others that were designed a little or genetically modifie...
CARMEN WURGEL

I don't think we ever can understand anyone else's life completely, period. But a willingness to tru...
CARMEN WURGEL

My prayer is that each of us look inside our own hearts. It takes a willingness to pause before we m...
CARMEN WURGEL

Patients find respect and a comfort level here. The majority of people who come here really struggle...
CARMEN VELASQUEZ

Before, we were just working with about 24 cities, which included fire districts within the four cou...
CARMEN VELASQUEZ

This year is very different.
CARMEN VELASQUEZ

I don't know if we're going to get less or more money, but we will have a very competitive applicati...
CARMEN VELASQUEZ

In Colorado Springs, there's some critical infrastructure there, military bases. We have a lot of po...
CARMEN VELASQUEZ

We had a couple wide shots, and we had six corners and they only had two. Their goal was just a defe...
CARMEN SCHOOLCRAFT

As a whole, we didn't play up to our potential. We kept them out of the circle okay, except for the ...
CARMEN SCHOOLCRAFT

She'd go past three of my defenders and ended flipping the ball from the corner both times, coming f...
CARMEN SCHOOLCRAFT

We had a good final seven-minute push in the second half, but that was about it. We dominated the fi...
CARMEN SCHOOLCRAFT

We know other people were involved. We want to know who else was involved in our son's murder. We ca...
CARMEN PROVIANO

St. Anthony is my patron saint. That's who my son was named after. We went into St. Anthony's Chapel...
CARMEN PROVIANO

We're halfway there. We'll never be completely satisfied until we know all the facts. Hopefully some...
CARMEN PROVIANO

We believe our son intended to help this poor woman, got her a hotel room for a night's rest and nev...
CARMEN PROVIANO

You've made our lives a living hell.
CARMEN PROVIANO

We are ecstatic. We are finally getting a little bit of peace, but we'll never be completely happy u...
CARMEN PROVIANO

Being the despicable person that you are, you show no remorse.
CARMEN PROVIANO

They did an extraordinary job.
CARMEN PROVIANO

Any win we have in a boat reflects on the entire team. We did a lot more this year than we've ever d...
CARMEN MIROCHNA

You can't have a bad day in the Big Ten or else you'll be looking out for everybody. It all comes do...
CARMEN MIROCHNA

Our goal is speed. However, if the girls give their best performance on the water, regardless of how...
CARMEN MIROCHNA

We have been working hard, but Michigan State is an accomplished team. We will continue to strengthe...
CARMEN MIROCHNA

Even small progress is progress. The entire novice stepped it up -- they had their right race at the...
CARMEN MIROCHNA

This is exactly what we needed. Their dedication really shows on days like today, and we will contin...
CARMEN MIROCHNA

I have never followed what people say it is 'fashionable'. I think that a woman must wear what fits ...
CARMEN MIRANDA

I have a huge disdain for those artists who say that they don't need a prize to have their talent re...
CARMEN MIRANDA

I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the...
CARMEN MIRANDA

I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say mon...
CARMEN MIRANDA

More affectionate than a kiss is a well done hug in someone that you love. Have you ever notice how ...
CARMEN MIRANDA

Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body.
CARMEN MIRANDA

With oil at above US$67 per barrel, this is likely to once again raise investors' concern over the i...
CARMEN LEE

I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

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