Tavi Gevinson Quotes
Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
Quotes to Explore
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
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I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.
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Fifth Harmony are all feminists. It's our duty to reach out to people and let them know a woman can be just as powerful as a man can be.
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It's like I'm in a closet in a college dorm room.
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There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.
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Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
