Vivienne Westwood Quotes

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

Vivienne Westwood

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Car

• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Eyes
  • Worst
  • Blind

• The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Nobody
  • Some
  • Manufacturing

• The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

  

  Walter F. Ulmer
  • Important
  • Job
  • Purpose

• Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Man
  • Environment
  • Habit

• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Humor
  • Weapon
  • Incredible

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Drink
  • New Years

• French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Real
  • Bad

• As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Write

• Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Design
  • Ugly
  • Video Games

• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Day
  • Baseball

• Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Democracy
  • Laws
  • Elections

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• Social peace requires reciprocity.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Peace
  • Social
  • Requires

• My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Mother
  • Passion
  • Courage

• Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Wish
  • Happiness

• Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Time
  • Broken
  • Places

• I love the Western genre. In fact, one of my dreams is to play a cowboy on screen, like Clint Eastwood. I don't think it's going to happen, but you can always hope.

  

  Rahul Kohli
  • Hope
  • Like
  • Dreams

• A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.

  

  William James
  • Different
  • Science
  • Horse

• I teach MBAs. And I noticed, starting a few years after China joined the World Trade Organization, that a lot of my students were no longer employed. They were still coming to get their MBA, but they'd lost their jobs. And I started to ask questions why. And, at that point, all roads were leading to Beijing.

  

  Peter Navarro
  • World
  • Why
  • Lost

• I hope, then, that every one who sees 'The Danish Girl' might be galvanized themselves to lead more authentic lives. How much lovelier would the world be then?

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • World
  • Hope
  • Girl

• My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Style
  • Touch
  • Androgyny

• We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • World
  • Stupid
  • Mentality