Alexa Chung Quotes

I'm just really good at dressing my body's proportions.

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• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Hair
  • Gay
  • Unique

• Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Long
  • May
  • Hope

• In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Night

• I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • War
  • Culture

• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Hate
  • Actor

• Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Wall

• I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Hate
  • Decision
  • Confused

• Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Most
  • Cells
  • DNA

• I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Want
  • Man
  • Serious

• The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • People
  • Many
  • Loyal

• I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Done
  • Career
  • Years

• One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Will
  • Others
  • Himself

• I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Ideas
  • Thoughts
  • Very

• He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Political
  • Party
  • Hands

• We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.

  

  Freddie Hubbard
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Responsibility
  • Grandmother
  • Democratic Party

• The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.

  

  Brooke Shields

• The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren't born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I'm just really good at dressing my body's proportions.

  

  Alexa Chung
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