Andre Leon Talley Quotes

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

Andre Leon Talley

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• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • Life
  • Moments
  • My Life

• There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Doubt

• The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Play
  • Doing

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • End
  • Treat

• Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Important
  • Help
  • Small

• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

  Finn Jones
  • She
  • Dad
  • Child

• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Future
  • Man

• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • First
  • Short
  • Hear

• Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Perfect
  • Easier
  • Moderation

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • America
  • Quite

• I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Women
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Handle

• Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Think
  • You
  • Come And Go

• I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

  

  Matt Barr
  • Life
  • Different
  • Interesting

• Owen says my book will be forgotten in 10 years; perhaps so, but, with such a list of prestigious scientific supporters, I feel convinced that the subject will not.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Book

• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • History
  • Hate

• I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson

• People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • People
  • Life