Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes
I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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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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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.
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The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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Language is fun; it's fun to try.
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We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
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Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
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We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world.
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When they ask who is your biggest influence, I always say Pharrell: whether it is music or fashion, I'm a big fan.
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Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.
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I really wasted a lot of time in my 20s.
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I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.
