James Northcote Quotes
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.
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A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.
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I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.
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I've always loved fashion.
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My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.
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The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.
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I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.
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Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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I love it when people who don't normally see fashion shows see them, because they find it so exciting.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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The idea that you've been friends for your whole life and then suddenly the other person becomes your job - it would be so weird. It would be hard not to become massively resentful.
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The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
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Taking control of your own creation, you can ultimately affect your future.
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.
