Tavi Gevinson Quotes
When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
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If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
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I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
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These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.
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The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
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My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
