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Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.


Vera Nazarian

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VERA WANG It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed...
VERA WANG There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I re...
VERA WANG Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions
VERA RUBIN I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
VERA WANG Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that peop...
VERA WANG Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
VERA BRITTAIN I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the brea...
VERA FARMIGA Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
VERA BRITTAIN Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
VERA BRITTAIN All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or ...
VERA BRITTAIN At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violenc...
VERA BRITTAIN There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
VERA JOHNSON The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . i...
VERA BRITTAIN Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is...
VERA WANG To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredi...
VERA WANG When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophisticatio...
VERA WANG When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the ide...
VERA WANG I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up o...
VERA BRITTAIN I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something ...
VERA FARMIGA I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearin...
VERA WANG I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler p...
VERA FARMIGA The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your m...
VERA WANG I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
VERA WANG