Donatella Versace Quotes

You couldn't define the '80s when the '80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn't. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at once. It was defined when it was over.

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• We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Thought
  • Human
  • White

• I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like

• We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Famous
  • Rich

• The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Party
  • Status
  • Status Quo

• Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Like
  • Sense

• I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Training

• I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Life
  • Enough
  • My Life

• I will fight like the dickens to protect Social Security.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Fight
  • Security
  • Protect

• I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • Like
  • Jack Whittaker

• Kanga said to Roo, 'Drink up your milk first, dear, and talk afterwards.' So Roo, who was drinking his milk, tried to say that he could do both at once . . . and had to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwards.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • College
  • Greatness

• Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Men
  • Wisdom

• Search for a discipline within freedom! Don't let yourelf be governed by formulae drawn from decadent philosophies: they are for the feeble-minded. Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind...

  

  Claude Debussy
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Advice

• Come ne l'alto mar legno talora,Che da duo venti sia percosso e vinto,Ch'ora uno inanzi l'ha mandato, ed oraUn altro al primo termine respinto,E l'han girato da poppa e da prora.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Character
  • Blue
  • Stock

• Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • People
  • Health
  • Wise

• I don't play music very well, so I've always surrounded myself with people who played a lot better than I did. I'm a loyal person, and I just tend to leave it to the experts.

  

  Lynn Anderson
  • People
  • Music

• I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Conservative
  • Senators
  • Legislators

• I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

  

  Miranda Kerr
  • Beautiful
  • Embrace
  • Uniqueness

• Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • War
  • End
  • Cold

• I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Hate
  • Wife
  • Daughter

• If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Happy
  • Soul
  • Die

• You couldn't define the '80s when the '80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn't. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at once. It was defined when it was over.

  

  Donatella Versace