Vivienne Westwood Quotes
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.
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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
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Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
