Matthew Williamson Quotes
It's just fantastic to have someone like the Duchess of Cambridge wear the brand. I think there are often misconceptions about who the brand is for, but it's not just a 20-year-old blonde girl on the beach, and Kate is testament to that.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
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How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.
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How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.
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We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.
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It's just fantastic to have someone like the Duchess of Cambridge wear the brand. I think there are often misconceptions about who the brand is for, but it's not just a 20-year-old blonde girl on the beach, and Kate is testament to that.
