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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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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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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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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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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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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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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People who are bipolar, they kind of latch onto things that are fanatical sometimes.
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I'm coming from a Ginuwine and Usher background: slow and smooth songs. And that's why I really connected to Sam Cooke, because he was just very smooth. It's not like the James Brown types, which is all great stuff, but he was totally set apart from those guys.
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After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. 'Your advice,' said Cicero, 'were good if we were to fight jackdaws.'
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When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about...
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We have to look at loan forgiveness to incentivise young people to pursue degrees in areas where we know we need help.
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People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
