Hedi Slimane Quotes

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

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• When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • School
  • Kids
  • Government

• Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Stop
  • Fashion
  • Like

• The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Want
  • End
  • India

• I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Up
  • World
  • House

• After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Boy

• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Same

• I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Community
  • Child

• People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Book
  • Attention

• You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Great
  • Success
  • Luck

• Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • People
  • See
  • Right

• I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Kids
  • Years
  • Photography

• My first concert was 'Nsync.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • First
  • Concert

• To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Artist
  • Find
  • Now

• Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • You
  • Always

• I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Years

• I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school and saying I wanted to be a professional athlete and the teacher replying, 'You're not going to make it; it's not possible.'

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • School
  • Remember
  • Age

• Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Music
  • Power
  • Soul

• Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Today
  • Progress
  • Computers

• Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Fashion
  • International