Yves Saint Laurent Quotes

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

Yves Saint Laurent

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• As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Healthy
  • Diet
  • Slow

• We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Understand
  • Slaves
  • Whatever

• It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Country
  • Company
  • Impossible

• It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Actor

• The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Good
  • Men
  • Changes

• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  

  Edmund White
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Man

• I have a secret love of jazz.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Love
  • Secret
  • Jazz

• There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Different
  • Women
  • History

• To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Reach

• I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • Me
  • Couple

• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Friends
  • History

• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • People
  • Small
  • Wonder

• I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Me

• When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Stage
  • Begin
  • Stage Fright

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Think
  • Start
  • Lead

• I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • People

• I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.

  

  Zendaya
  • Time
  • She
  • Happy

• The horse can just be a great vehicle for some people to overcome things in their life that they might not be able to overcome otherwise.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • People
  • Life
  • Horse

• There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
  • People

• Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Style

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Perfection