Andre Leon Talley Quotes

Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris.

Andre Leon Talley

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• Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • More
  • Hollywood
  • Where

• My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Family
  • Today
  • Overcome

• Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Wisdom
  • Ignore

• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Promise

• Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Together
  • Society
  • Culture

• Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Character
  • Defending

• There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Music
  • Art
  • Potential

• The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Work
  • Value
  • Independent

• Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Want
  • Government
  • Interest

• The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Business
  • Political

• I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Small
  • Church
  • Nebraska

• It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

  

  Barry Took
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Want
  • Know
  • Question

• I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Important
  • Stuff
  • Notes

• I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • World
  • History

• There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Silly

• No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Trying
  • Competition

• The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Life
  • World
  • Mind

• I wish I could help everyone to understand this one simple fact: we believe in God because of things we know with our heart and mind, not because of things we do not know. Our spiritual experiences are sometimes too sacred to explain in worldly terms, but that doesn't mean they are not real.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • God
  • Believe
  • Mind

• I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

  

  Michelle Trachtenberg
  • Love
  • Romance
  • Easier

• I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that's really all over the place - they'll play blues or some West African music, then A Tribe Called Quest, then funk from Ethiopia, then James Brown, and then the Beatles. It's an amazing mix.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing

• Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • Paris
  • Wedding