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.
Randeep Hooda
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
Vanessa Kerry
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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.
Adam D'Angelo
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
Irvine Welsh
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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.
Karen Gillan
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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.
Zinedine Zidane
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
Olga Kurylenko
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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.
W. Richard Stevens
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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.
Venus Williams
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
Umberto Eco
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I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
Sachin Tendulkar
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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.
Washington Irving
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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.
Samuel Butler
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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.
Isaac Hayes
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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.
Nargis Fakhri
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Trying to breast-feed gave me such a creepy feeling. It made me feel sick.
Davinia Taylor
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There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
Ellen Terry
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.
Douglas Coupland
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
Zooey Deschanel
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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.
Katharine Hamnett