Aslaug Magnusdottir Quotes
I was eager to see what Swedish design had to offer and get a sense of its fashion culture, and Altewai Saome was the perfect introduction.
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
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On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
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I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist helping me to figure it out.
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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In fashion, the minute you say, 'I am successful,' is the minute you are going down.
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I taught English in Costa Rica before I went to college. I'm not an especially outdoorsy guy, but sometimes I would spot wildlife while whitewater rafting or walking in the rainforest at 5 A.M.
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The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
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The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level.
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It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
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I was eager to see what Swedish design had to offer and get a sense of its fashion culture, and Altewai Saome was the perfect introduction.
