Rei Kawakubo Quotes

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

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• Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Learn

• At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Times

• I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Water

• What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • God
  • You
  • Imagine

• It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Religion

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Shoes

• When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Go
  • Wait
  • Outside

• The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Long
  • Today
  • Jesus

• Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Religion
  • Search

• When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Book
  • Like
  • Teacher

• I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.

  

  Kage Baker

• 'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'

  

  Logic
  • Logic

• We are really focused on the beauty enthusiast... but also, as you know, everybody has got a great phone in their pocket. Everybody is taking pictures. Who doesn't want to look good in a picture? I don't know anybody who doesn't.

  

  Mary Dillon
  • Good
  • Great
  • Picture

• More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • World
  • Good
  • Growing

• All I'll say is... I'm at a point in life when nothing feels shocking to me. I need something to shock me! I'm almost ready to see a U.F.O.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Life

• We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Excuses

• The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Friends
  • War
  • Fighting

• But I am very confident that David Pleat, the director of football or whatever his title is now days - I am very confident that he, with all his media commitments around the world, knows the market place.

  

  Billy Davies
  • Football
  • Director
  • Confident

• 'NYT Opinion' offers our readers what we think are the most stimulating and interesting points of view you can find anywhere.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Interesting
  • Opinion

• My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

  

  Rei Kawakubo
  • Freedom
  • Energy
  • Spirit