Mary Quant Quotes
I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
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I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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Nothing, literally nothing, makes me feel like I'm back to my body more than Pilates.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
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I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.
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Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.
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I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
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When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.
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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
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I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today.
