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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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global basis. The traditional patterns of national rivalry and national competition are not suitable for those cases.

  

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• The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words!

  

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• 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