Alexander McQueen Quotes
I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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Music is about the performance.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.
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A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.
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I can't feel my face. I mean I can touch it. But I can't feel it inside.
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If I go anywhere where there are people who vaguely look like me, there is always that feeling of, 'Actually I do look quite similar to everyone else.' At moments like that, I become very, very British. My accent gets more clipped, and I stride around as if I've got an empire.
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I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
