Alexander McQueen Quotes
It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
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I'm curvy.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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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!
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
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It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.
