Vivienne Westwood Quotes
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
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O’Hara was in his most non-stop way of talking, saying that the pictures put him in mind of Tiepolo Spanish wall-painter, c. 1750. Certain cupola frescoes. Suddenly I was working in an ancient building, a warehouse facing the Giudecca. The loft over the firehouse was transformed. It was filled with light reflected from the canal. quote in 1955
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Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
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TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.
