Vivienne Westwood Quotes

I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

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• When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Look
  • Civilization
  • Pool

• There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Place
  • Traditions

• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Eat
  • Either

• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Military
  • Two
  • Fiji

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Night
  • Singing
  • Smoking

• I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Love
  • Funny

• That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Long
  • Father
  • Parents

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Moving
  • New York

• A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Poet

• In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Way
  • Myself

• Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Better
  • Class
  • Environmental

• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Single
  • Information
  • Changes

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • Movies
  • Made

• When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Art

• A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Going
  • Polls

• I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Age
  • Sorry

• On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Fragrance
  • Lemon
  • Lime

• Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Up
  • Today
  • Night

• I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either. I was good in a fight.So people left me alone. i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way. And then Dante came along.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • People
  • Love
  • Way

• I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• Yoga is a big part of my destressing. Even sitting on the floor for 10 minutes to center myself, stretch and relax can be a huge game changer.

  

  Erin Hamlin
  • Relax
  • Minutes
  • Huge

• I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Designer