Hedi Slimane Quotes

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

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• I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • American
  • Woman

• I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Colleagues

• I don't mind a bikini bottom.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Mind
  • Bottom
  • Bikini

• I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Food

• Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn't afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent?

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?

  

  Fat Joe
  • Why
  • Business
  • Hair

• My parents were hippies.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Parents
  • Were
  • Hippies

• I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Problems
  • Interest
  • Relaxing

• Iraq is an unjust war. I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • War

• It's fun to sniff and slather on beauty products, but the end goal is finding what appeals most to 'Teen Vogue' readers and reporting on it in the most compelling way.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Fun
  • Teen

• Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • People
  • May

• My older brothers, they know how to keep my head straight and be thinking about what I need to do on the court. Now I have that in me, that mentality, that I want to get better and better every game. Thanks to them, they showed me the way.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Thinking
  • Game
  • Thanks

• Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable.

  

  David Hewson
  • May
  • Light
  • Picture

• One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple's development must come from within.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Environment

• I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

  

  Betty Hill
  • American

• We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Children
  • Style
  • Rock

• When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult.

  

  Pele
  • Player
  • Intelligent
  • Dirty

• I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.

  

  Jeff Gordon
  • Prayer

• I can honestly say I've never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters to me is that the character is true to my belief in who he or she is.

  

  David Levithan
  • She
  • Character
  • True

• It is everybody's wish to work with Mani Ratnam.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Everybody

• I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

  

  David Friedman
  • People

• We wanted to do a pick-and-roll and kick it out and it just didn't happen. We had a girl in the wrong spot. We wanted Hattie and Katie on the same side and set a pick-and-roll, but we just didn't get there.

  

  Marc Nelson Boyz II Men
  • Girl
  • Wrong
  • Side

• There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Attitude
  • Credit
  • Helicopter

• The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Framework of men's