Vivienne Westwood Quotes

There's always a polemic in my clothes.

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• I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Long
  • Think

• When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Know

• In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Women
  • Goal

• We care about margins.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Care
  • About
  • Margins

• I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Future
  • Down
  • Plan

• One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Work
  • Need
  • Employees

• During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Information
  • Discovery

• From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Time
  • Age
  • Nothing

• I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • Students

• My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Mother
  • Today
  • Mean

• I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Journey

• Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Heart
  • Beauty
  • Beholder

• She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Support
  • Mom
  • Kid

• I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Decisions

• My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Movie
  • Girl
  • Comedy

• I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Real
  • Happy
  • Myself

• I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Band
  • Attitude
  • Clothes

• The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Science
  • Responsibility
  • Purpose

• At any given time, no matter how deeply you are in love with one person, they're appealing to a very specific side of you.

  

  Scott Porter
  • In Love

• The intuitive standard for rational decision making is carefully considering all available options and taking the best one. At first glance, computers look like the paragons of this approach, grinding their way through complex computations for as long as it takes to get perfect answers. But as we've seen, that is an outdated picture of what computers do; it's a luxury afforded by an easy problem. In the hard cases, the best algorithms are all about doing what makes the most sense in the least amount of time, which by no means giving careful consideration to every factor and pursuing every computation to the end. Life is just too complicated for that.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Life
  • Standard
  • Options

• There's always a polemic in my clothes.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Clothes
  • Polemics