Tamara Mellon Quotes
My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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People have to evolve.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one is wrong? It's not fair to generalize anyone's sexuality or walk of life.
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For some reason, the fans got behind me, and I don't know exactly why that is. I wasn't supposed to main event WrestleMania XXX, but the fans were so vocal about it that the fans had no choice but to put me in the match. I've had a lot of lucky breaks.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.
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Weapons are less harmful than words.
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There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.
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I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
