Valentino Garavani Quotes

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.

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• A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

  

  J. D. Hayworth
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• I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.

  

  Patrick Wilson
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• When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Like
  • Boy
  • Young

• I like risky stuff.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Like
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• I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.

  

  Lance Gross
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• Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pink, grey, suede and black.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Black
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  • Red

• I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

  

  Larry Hagman
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• Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Speed
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• I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.

  

  Dakota Johnson
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  • Feminine

• There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

  

  Victoria Principal
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• I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

  

  C. S. Forester
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• I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
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• Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

  

  B. B. King
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• I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
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• The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.

  

  Halston Sage
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• When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Guy
  • Interesting
  • Challenge

• It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the world's biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it's much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I'm pretty sure the agency's divorce rate is rather high.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?

  

  Alexander Koch
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.

  

  Amanda Harlech
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• I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.

  

  Valentino Garavani
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