Jonathan Anderson Quotes

For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there - you can create a new normality.

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• In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • School
  • Done
  • Studying

• I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Different
  • White

• Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • High
  • Success

• I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Small
  • Alone
  • Myself

• I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Morning
  • Try
  • Twitter

• Twitter's more fast-paced. Instagram, it's more, like, lifestyle and posting very specific, cool pictures.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Cool
  • Pictures
  • Lifestyle

• I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Life
  • Small
  • Creative

• A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Me
  • Idea

• I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Married

• Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Good
  • Today

• The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Rap

• Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Like
  • Nothing
  • Married

• Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Time
  • Love
  • Brazil

• Oh man, I would definitely love to work with Kanye on something. But it really is all up to him, so whatever he wants to do, I'm with it.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Up
  • Work
  • Love

• I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Career

• Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

  

  Harlan Ellison

• I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Freedom
  • Passion
  • Regret

• Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business?

  

  Bill Gates
  • Business

• 'I have nine lives,' said the kitten, purring softly as it walked around in a circle and then came back to the roof; 'but I can't lose even one of them by falling in this country, because I really couldn't manage to fall if I wanted to.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Country
  • Fall

• The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
  • Trouble
  • Stuff
  • Remembered

• Enjoy most: the prospect of having an impact on the public debate. Irritating liberals is a close second.

  

  Ann Coulter

• Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

  

  Ellen Tauscher
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there - you can create a new normality.

  

  Jonathan Anderson