Geoffrey Beene Quotes

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

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• I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Myself

• I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Believe
  • Father
  • Loss

• The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Looks
  • Constitution
  • Union

• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Living
  • Memory
  • Loss

• I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Want
  • House
  • Learn

• Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Free
  • Care

• I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Game
  • Weird

• I'm a television junkie.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Television

• Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your normal routine at home. It is just a bit more discipline and not eating breads and pastas which are my favourite foods in the entire world.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • World
  • Home
  • Discipline

• Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Political
  • Law
  • Abuse

• If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Period

• 'Fiji can make a similar report on the US on all those issues. Our report would be far worse than the US state department's report on Fiji.' (2 March 2005, reacting to a US State Department report critical on the state of race relations in Fiji).

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • March

• A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Value

• It is so rare to meet with a man out-doors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Mind
  • Independent

• If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.

  

  Alan Sugar

• In TV, you're basically shooting an episode in 10 to 14 days; 14 days is a luxury situation. And in film, you have anywhere from a month to three months, or it can be even longer than that, depending on what the production is.

  

  Chadwick Boseman

• Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.

  

  Jorge Cruise

• I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.

  

  Joel Kinnaman

• I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.

  

  Sebastian Vettel
  • Remember
  • Lost
  • Firsts

• Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

  

  Geoffrey Beene