Christian Lacroix Quotes

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

Christian Lacroix

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• Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Reality
  • Need
  • Writer

• Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Military
  • Strength
  • Form

• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Easy

• They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Better
  • Garden

• I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Hate
  • Same
  • Sound

• Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Life
  • Reality

• Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Long
  • Wonder

• Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Think

• I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Honest

• You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Me
  • Might
  • Entrepreneur

• I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Tennis
  • Gym
  • Dancing

• 'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Ideas
  • Parenting

• My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

  

  Karl Malden
  • Father
  • Milk
  • Delivered

• I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Team

• My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Great
  • Sex

• I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Me
  • Thankful
  • Blame

• Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by the inclinations and predispositions of federal judges. The outcome should instead depend on the commitments and beliefs of the President and those who operate under him.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Believe
  • Commitment
  • Judging

• Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, 'These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,' it's always some super simple sludge riff with a singer that sings high and screechy. And it's really awful.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • High
  • Simple
  • Band

• The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• I was lucky enough to create my own dress, deciding on every single design detail. But, even if you don't have a custom dress, you can still create a signature wedding-day look with personalization - a belt, altering the sleeves, etc. But, when creating your bridal style, the most important thing to remember is to make it feel like you.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Single

• I saw 'Clueless' five times in the theatre when I was growing up.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Theatre

• French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

  

  Christian Lacroix
  • Design