Alexander McQueen Quotes

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

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• I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • motivation
  • Revenge

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Happiness

• There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Flying
  • Saying

• Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Smile
  • Hands
  • Profound

• Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Confidence
  • Lack
  • Contagious

• I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.

  

  Madison McKinley
  • World
  • Friends
  • Leader

• There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Truth
  • Magic
  • Leaving

• Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Work
  • Men
  • You

• The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Integrity

• I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Doing

• The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Free
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fire
  • Communication
  • Dead

• For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Done
  • Art
  • Change

• Truth is a tendency.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Tendency

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• I've always been attracted to action stuff.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Action
  • Always
  • Attracted

• The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

  

  Jerrold Nadler
  • Health
  • Quality

• If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags.

  

  Charles Dance
  • World

• An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Future
  • Past

• I'm proud to say you are not a racist or a bigot or anything like that if you say that the Netherlands, as Australia, is a culture based on Christianity, on Judaism, on humanism, and it should not, nor ever will become a society based on Islamic failures.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Culture
  • Proud
  • Christianity

• People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Past
  • Culture
  • Style