Philomena Kwao Quotes

It's refreshing when plus-size styling is exciting and pushes boundaries rather than safe and boring.

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• I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Space
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur

• I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Different
  • Sell
  • Turkey

• The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • Relationship
  • Government

• The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Future
  • Risk
  • Holocaust

• I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Live
  • True
  • Think

• My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Mature

• I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Outside

• I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Trying
  • Feeling
  • Know

• Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.

  

  Walter Salles
  • American
  • New
  • Now

• To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Politics
  • Identity

• I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
  • People
  • Life
  • Today

• I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • World
  • Class
  • Mouth

• If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.

  

  Randall Terry
  • America
  • Today
  • Know

• I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Words

• Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Live
  • Money
  • Style

• That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Harrison Ford is absolutely amazing. He is a Hollywood icon, and just to work with him was absolutely incredible.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Him

• You have to step up when your number is called.

  

  Reggie Lewis
  • Step
  • Number
  • Called

• I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Freedom
  • Passion
  • Regret

• When I look at women, older than I am, in their 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, and I see women that I admire, I think, 'Oh, I get it; that's how I'm going to be.' I'm not scared. I want to be that.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Women

• The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty much any major composer from Debussy to Ravel to Mozart to whoever else - you can kind of hum it.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Pretty

• It's refreshing when plus-size styling is exciting and pushes boundaries rather than safe and boring.

  

  Philomena Kwao