Phillip Lim Quotes

I'm not such a public person.

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• It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Person
  • Race
  • Type

• I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Love
  • Countries

• A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Girl
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • American
  • Fear
  • Now

• My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I like the simplicity of a halter-top or plunging neckline, but I'll rough it up by wearing studded shoes and my leather jacket.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • Shoes
  • Simplicity

• I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Hair
  • Never
  • Teeth

• If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Experience
  • Reading
  • Listening

• The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • More
  • Mathematics
  • Abstract

• Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Good
  • Work
  • Hand

• Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Life
  • Long
  • Done

• Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Children
  • Right
  • Obligation

• I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • Teach
  • Morals

• I don't read a lot of books.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Books
  • Read
  • Lot

• It was tough to make weight against Cerrone, and I passed out three times making weight for the Eddie Alvarez fight. One day you get to the limit.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Day
  • Fight
  • Tough

• I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Think
  • More
  • Jews

• A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • You
  • Film
  • Emotionally

• This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such a dead Being, but, on the contrary, is Life; - but it can only be a Power, since only a Power is the true formal picture or Schema of Life. And indeed it can only be the Power of realising that which is contained in itself - a Schema.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Lines
  • Relief
  • Fronts

• The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Car
  • Successful

• Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Humanity

• I'm not such a public person.

  

  Phillip Lim