Tamara Mellon Quotes
When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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I would never walk off any show.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.
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When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting.
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I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something – I worked in HR at the time – they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.
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Art is what defines us, what makes us human.
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When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
