Alexander Wang Quotes

My friends always joke that I run on batteries.

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• I'll sleep when I'm dead.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Dead

• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Egg

• It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Greatness

• A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Where

• NASA should start thinking about this planet.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Thinking
  • Start
  • NASA

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Good Things

• Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweetness
  • Richness
  • Spice

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Like
  • Fish
  • Fresh

• I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Father
  • Survive
  • Twin

• I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Kids
  • Out
  • Five

• As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Job
  • Want
  • Career

• Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • Often
  • Cyber

• Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Science
  • Attention

• At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Golf
  • Shoes
  • Point

• I would love to go to film school.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • School
  • Love
  • Film

• I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Up
  • Poetry

• Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Justice
  • Pray

• Welcome to my library! Ever since my high school days, books and magazines have been to my mind what friends are in the flesh. Each and every one of these books and articles- a fraction of the 12,000 volumes that I share my house with- has contributed to expanding my dream.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Mind
  • School
  • Friends

• As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.

  

  Sanjay Dutt
  • People
  • Real
  • Friends

• My friends always joke that I run on batteries.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Friends