Marlene Dietrich Quotes

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

Marlene Dietrich

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• Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • War
  • Strong
  • Leadership

• To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Growing
  • Football
  • Games

• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Start

• Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Opportunity
  • Team
  • Change

• I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Me
  • Doors
  • Open

• I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Writing
  • She
  • Book

• I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • You
  • Just
  • Pressure

• I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • School
  • Want
  • Yourself

• Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Happiness
  • Scratch
  • Itch

• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money
  • Commercial
  • Hobby

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Practice
  • Better
  • See

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • Want
  • Amazing

• In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Hands
  • Romantic
  • Cigarette

• A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Mind

• I have, in the past, been attracted to really strong and dominant men. But on the other side, I have been attracted to very androgynous men. I don't typically fall for your average jock. I just like people that are a little atypical.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • People
  • Men
  • Past

• There are four classes of Idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names - calling the first class, Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theater.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men

• I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

  

  Cobi Jones
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Question

• I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

  

  Marlene Dietrich
  • Men
  • Fashion