Vivienne Westwood Quotes
I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
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My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
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I'm always surprised when anything about the band connects. But I love the fact that it's hard for people to understand. We've said before that it's always been a great thing to get certain people to go away thinking, 'Oh dear, she can't play the drums!' 'Fine, if you think it's all a gimmick, go away!' It weeds out people who wouldn't care anyway.
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I think that women should be decorative.
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I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'
