Andre Leon Talley Quotes

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

Andre Leon Talley

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• I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • People
  • School
  • High

• There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Famous
  • Saying
  • Radio

• As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Different
  • You
  • Person

• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Earth
  • Rights

• I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Mind
  • Doing
  • Start

• I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.

  

  Iman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Years

• You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Work
  • Blessed
  • Strength

• When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Think
  • Dead

• Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Age
  • Day
  • Best

• What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Successful
  • New York
  • Los Angeles

• I believe in microfinance because it isn't just a path out of poverty. It's the road to self-reliance. By allowing people to team up and literally become their own bank, you can mobilize people and resources and alleviate poverty on the global scale.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• The Joker was Batman's nemesis, but-ironically-his archenemy was Superman, since Superman made Batman entirely mortal and generally nonessential. Nobody likes to admit this, but Batman fucking hated Superman; Superman is the reason Batman became an alcoholic.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Batman
  • Superman
  • Joker

• I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • World
  • Work
  • Father

• We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation. We have an obligation to clean up after ourselves, and not leave our children with a world we've shortsightedly messed up, shortchanged, and crippled.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• You are an adult, and you can dress up whenever you want to. You don't need permission anymore! If you wake up next Tuesday, and you feel like being Batman, go for it! And then you go to work, and your boss will look up and go 'who are you,' and you can say...'I am Batman. That's who I am, who are you?'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Up
  • Work
  • Boss

• The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Organization

• What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • Thinking
  • History
  • Feeling

• All intense interest in luxury is a mark of inner poverty. The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Soul
  • Poverty

• The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Earth
  • Stupidity
  • Great Piece

• I really like just super dry comedy.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Just

• I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise - then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I'm a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles.

  

  David Lagercrantz
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Novels
  • Relaxation
  • Severe

• I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

  

  Andre Leon Talley