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

  

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

  

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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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• 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.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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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.

  

  Candis Cayne
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• Social peace requires reciprocity.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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• Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.

  

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• You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.

  

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• He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.

  

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• I know. And that's what took me so long.

  

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• Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.

  

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  • People
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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