Katharine Hamnett Quotes
You might think people would buy clothes out of pity, but they won’t. People buy clothes because they want to be excited about themselves. ...it has to be great clothing that just happens to be goody-goody, too.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
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Never judge a stranger by his clothes.
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When I'm fully fit, I have power and pace; then I feel good on the pitch.
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Management is not a science, it is an art.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.
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It's important to have a life outside the band.
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You might think people would buy clothes out of pity, but they won’t. People buy clothes because they want to be excited about themselves. ...it has to be great clothing that just happens to be goody-goody, too.
