John Fairchild Quotes
People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories. We are a creation of this business, which is fast, mean, tough, sometimes artistic, sometimes horrible.John Fairchild
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
Sam Heughan -
I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
Nat Wolff -
There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
Octavia Spencer -
I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
Jack Nicholson -
Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
Isaac Hayes -
People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
Ha-Joon Chang
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
Ice T -
When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.
Gail Collins -
Everything I make starts very personally.
Baz Luhrmann -
What other people think of me is none of my business.
Gary Oldman -
Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
Vidal Sassoon -
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
Karl Lagerfeld -
It's human nature to want to be with other people.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
Verite -
When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.
Victoria Principal -
I stopped caring what people thought.
Namie Amuro
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It's a privilege to be able to be involved with people as talented as the people I've had the luck to work with, and it's just been a great experience for me, and I'm glad that so many of the films I've had the luck to do were films that could be enjoyed by families together.
Harrison Ford -
When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.
Jerry Reinsdorf -
Other people want a career or success because they think that will help them find their personal life somewhere. I've done it the other way around. What I have is what everybody else is looking for. I know I've got it made. I know I'm a very lucky man. That came first. Then the music and the career just kind of took care of themselves.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival -
I think back to my childhood, and I remember running around as a kid. We were all running around then. It wasn't about getting into shape. It's just what we did.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.
Freya Stark -
People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories. We are a creation of this business, which is fast, mean, tough, sometimes artistic, sometimes horrible.
John Fairchild