Hedi Slimane Quotes
When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
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You were born as the one you are.
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
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I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
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When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.
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Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.
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Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
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From my childhood, I am like this. I never go parties and attend functions.
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If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again – which is fine and makes me humble.
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The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.
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We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.
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A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
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When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.
