Vivienne Westwood Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
You either make dust or eat dust.
-
Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
-
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.
-
I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
-
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.
-
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.
-
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
-
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.
-
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
-
In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
-
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.
-
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.
-
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
-
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.
-
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the 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!
-
Medicare's top officials said in 2006 that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims paid by the agency, keeping billions of dollars out of the hands of people trying to game the system.
-
I write about messy relationships, and they put pastel covers on them, but I can't complain.
-
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
-
In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money that's coming in now from television rights, there's no need for them to be greedy. Look after the supporters; make sure they can still afford to go and watch football.
-
Go to work every day, be the first one in and the last one to leave, and you'll know that you've done everything in your power to make your life better.
-
I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
