Sarah Burton Quotes
When you design a collection, you have to start with what you love and what you believe in. Unless you do that, you can't stand behind it, so there's no point in doing it.
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I believe in giving back.
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.
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I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.
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Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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I don't believe in regret.
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I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
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If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
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I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
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I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
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I don't believe in ghosts.
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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
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It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.
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If we are serious about our human wellbeing - from local communities to the global world economy - we need to now reconnect our entire world to the planet.
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It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.
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When you design a collection, you have to start with what you love and what you believe in. Unless you do that, you can't stand behind it, so there's no point in doing it.
