Alexander McQueen Quotes
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
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Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.
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I am married to work.
