Vivienne Westwood Quotes

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

Vivienne Westwood

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• I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

  

  Pat Travers
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  • Opportunity
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• My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

  

  Gary McCord
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  • High
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• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
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• The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

  

  C. L. R. James
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• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
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• The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Play
  • Learning
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• My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Thinking
  • Dreams
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• The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Society
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• I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Good
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• My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
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• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Reality
  • Best
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• But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

  

  Talcott Parsons
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• Money does not buy anyone the right to tell Israel what to do, but long-term involvement, dialogue, and care demand that we must listen.

  

  Ofra Strauss
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• I've seen 'Legend'. I like a different kind of cinema, but when done with conviction, anything looks good.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
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• I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.

  

  James Altucher
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Mistake

• I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.

  

  Jermaine Jackson The Jacksons
  • America
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• 'Atomic Blonde' is about the characters' bigger existential crisis and their world. It's not so much the conceit of the spy game; it's more that being a spy sucks. But we're going to make it fun to watch.

  

  David Leitch
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• When we are all together, we will have a future that is far greater than whatever we could do separate from one another.

  

  Betsy Hodges
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• I think people kind of know me, although I am pretty private when it comes to my private life.

  

  Rozonda Thomas TLC
  • People
  • Private Life

• I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Real
  • Certain
  • Geometry