Andre Leon Talley Quotes
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
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An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
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There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
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The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But not until recently has it been recognized that in living organisms, as in the realm of crystals, chemical differences parallel the variation in structure.
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In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
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There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.
