Tadashi Shoji Quotes

There's almost a T-shirt feeling to wearing my evening dresses.

Tadashi Shoji

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• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Real
  • True

• The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Mind

• People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

  

  Omar Epps
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Proud
  • Lessons
  • Take

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Long
  • American
  • Fun

• After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Abortion

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Understand

• I don't see myself as a diva at all.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Myself
  • See
  • Diva

• Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Music
  • Country

• I'd rather entertain people than offend them.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Rather
  • Offend

• Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Help
  • Road
  • Red

• You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

  

  Edie Adams
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Leave

• Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Team
  • Focus
  • Body

• I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Believe
  • House

• There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

  

  Malcolm X
  • More
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• I'd rather have a girl exposed to me than 25 women in prom dresses vying for a stranger.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Girl
  • Stranger
  • Dresses

• Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

  

  Neil Sheehan
  • World
  • God
  • Home

• Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.

  

  Jim Lovell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Moon

• When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Present
  • December

• There have been so many photographers and editors who mentored me over the years. At the very beginning, the person who taught me the most was Arthur Elgort. I always loved working with him. We traveled a lot together.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Together
  • Beginning

• There's almost a T-shirt feeling to wearing my evening dresses.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Feeling
  • Dresses
  • T-shirt