Vivienne Westwood Quotes
I do have reasons for what I do. I am a very political person, and I really think if you put these clothes on, you will look like a force to be reckoned with.
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Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
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I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.
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When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.
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Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.
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I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
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I'm an economist, not a political scientist.
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Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.
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When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.
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My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
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People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
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Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
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At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.
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A fine line separates Chinese intellectuals and professors from the political gangsters who protect them.
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A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.
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I think the fakest thing in the world is to judge someone on how they look.
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When you’re first thinking through an idea, it’s important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly, is hard to do.
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If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level.
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I do have reasons for what I do. I am a very political person, and I really think if you put these clothes on, you will look like a force to be reckoned with.
