Vivienne Westwood Quotes

Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.

Vivienne Westwood

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• Running
• Pleasure

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• Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Family
  • Fighting
  • Italian

• For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Color

• I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • May
  • Training

• I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.

  

  Bai Ling
  • You
  • Chinese
  • Follow

• I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Strong
  • Interesting

• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• Time is the devourer of all things.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Things
  • All Things

• Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Power
  • Sometimes

• True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • True
  • Know

• For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Done
  • Art
  • Change

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Culture
  • Nice
  • Door

• I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Know
  • Year

• I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Want
  • Ego

• I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Happy
  • Working
  • Very

• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Stop

• It's absurd that you know more about your car than you know about your body.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Car

• I grew up surfing on the north coast of New South Wales, and on most of the beaches, women never wore tops. When we were 10 or 11, me and my mates couldn't drive, so they'd take us surfing and then sit on the beach topless and read a book. I don't know if I quite saw them sexually, but there was physical intrigue.

  

  Simon Baker
  • Book
  • Beach
  • Surfing

• Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Growing
  • Present

• 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Fun
  • Dirty
  • Directors

• It's never been about football, but about becoming the best and fullest person I could be. And to think that I went from the kid with a GPA in the basement to going to college on a football scholarship-I was thankful and humbled by how far I'd come in just a few years. I knew that miracles really do happen.

  

  Michael Oher
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • College

• Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Running