Jonathan Anderson Quotes

I didn't reinvent clothing; I reinvented the edit.

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• Surprise is key in all art.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Art
  • Surprise
  • Key

• Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Important
  • Literature

• When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Poverty
  • Injustice

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• For me, soccer was a dance.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Me
  • Dance
  • Soccer

• I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Path

• If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Character
  • Like
  • Trump

• A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have health issues of their own, and a lot of people need them. That's why the list is long and it takes a long time.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Hair
  • Serious

• I have to have coffee in the morning.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Want
  • Never
  • Size

• But she wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts.She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers,Dreaming 'bout the day when you wake up and findThat what you're lookin' for has been here the whole time.If you could see that I'm the one who understands you,Been here all along so why can't you see?You belong with me;You belong with me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• The flying Rumours gather'd as they roll'd, Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it, added something new, And all who heard it, made Enlargements too, In ev'ry Ear it spread, on ev'ry Tongue it grew.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Flying

• When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Believe
  • Beginning
  • Boy

• I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • War
  • Greek

• The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Friend

• If you feel depressed, go and buy twenty books about depression. Learn about it; find out how it works.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Depression

• When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • History
  • Changes
  • Majority

• There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Books
  • Loose
  • Dish

• I didn't reinvent clothing; I reinvented the edit.

  

  Jonathan Anderson