Coco Chanel Quotes

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.

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• The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

  

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• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

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• Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

  

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• I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

  

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• I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

  

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• I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

  

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• A good leader must be fair.

  

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• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  

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• I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.

  

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• If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

  

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• It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

  

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• We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

  

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• In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

  

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• The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

  

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• I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

  

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• The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

  

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• I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.

  

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• I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.

  

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• Of course I like to look at pretty girls in the street. What hot-blooded boy doesn't.

  

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• I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Fashion
  • Street
  • Originate