Donna Karan Quotes

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

When I was 19, my dad got sick, and I quit college to take over his business, a coffee shop on 19th Street, below Dupont Circle in D.C. I had been working there since I was 11 years old, so it was not a stretch to think that I could do it, but my record as a teenager, in many respects, was less than stellar.

I know so many people who've been through situations where they've gone from one career to another and have had such a tough time because they didn't have any support doing it.

There are so many people pulling at me at one time - some want the business, some want my love, some just want my support, just to be there or to acknowledge them the same way I used to. To be able to figure that out is an ongoing process, because there's always another show, another album, another moment that I don't want to miss. But I'm pacing myself. I hope the powers that be keep me on a straight course.

We all need support and friendship, regardless of circumstances. But where do people turn when friends and family are simply no longer there, or can't help us through a difficult time, or need all our care and attention and can't give us any in return? Thank goodness for befriending projects, who help fill the empty spaces where care, support and a listening ear need to be.

There's something people do to you when they bully you that makes you feel like you're on your own. But don't keep things inside, it's really damaging if you do.

The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone

What I do see is Cuban people that are just - want to see change. They are vibrant. They are trying to fix up old cars, so they can start their tourism businesses. There's hundreds of thousands of small companies that have already started under some exceptions that Raul Castro has put into place.

I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.

I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

She had a lot of hugs to give, but not enough people to give them to.

You never really realize how many people care about you until they all turn out to support you.

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

If there's any way that I can be of service to people who are going through something painful in their lives, even though the witch world is heightened, then that's great.

But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them alone is like having a huge spiky weight digging into your shoulders and chest, a weight you can't shift even while you're sleeping.

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want —” “— to worry or frighten them?” said Dumbledore, surveying Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles. “Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

Even if your family isn't quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.

When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

Your wealth of experience makes you rich. Spend it on hurt people. They need it so badly.