Philip Treacy Quotes
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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People would continue to adopt a particular conception of the divine because it worked for them, not because it was scientifically or philosophically sound.
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As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.
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I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.
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Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
