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

• Even newlyweds don't spend much time together, now that few marriages outlast the appliance warranties.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Together

• 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

• Bruce was famous, but not 'Elvis famous.' He was confident and lighthearted. Comfortable in his own skin. Or so it seemed.

  

  Linda Thompson
  • Famous

• I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • People
  • Different

• You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Funny
  • Best

• You know to make his rigid, tedious, boring paintings seem at least a little human, the Mondrian enthusiasts keep insisting that Mondrian was a great tango dancer.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Great

• The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.

  

  Albert Pierrepoint
  • Death
  • Wanted
  • Get Off

• 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