Mary Quant Quotes
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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My health is fine.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.
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Many unfortunate human situations unfold ... where people who face very bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. Risk taking of this king often turns manageable failures into disasters.
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People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.
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While the law cannot force a person to be moral or tolerant, through the law we can demand respect and expect equality.
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People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
