Margherita Missoni Quotes

I lived in New York for five years; I've lived in Barcelona, Rome, and Paris at different times. When I was 18, I was dying to live in a city.

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• After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Socks

• I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Really
  • Mainstream
  • Novelist

• I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Live
  • America
  • Freedom

• I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Myself
  • Try
  • I Can

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Yourself

• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Will
  • Comfort
  • Survive

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Proud

• I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • People
  • Work
  • Care

• I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • China
  • Cyber

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Singing

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Risk
  • Year

• The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Nation

• The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at any point in history, and within a few months, it will turn out to be timely.

  

  Alan Alda
  • History
  • Movie
  • Question

• I've been using a computer for quite some time, and I don't understand everything.

  

  Betty Parsons
  • Time

• It wasn’t as direct as me saying 'I now make the choice to bring the paparazzi into my life.' I really said, 'I now make the choice to sleep with Jessica Simpson.' That was stronger than my desire to stay out of the paparazzi’s eye.

  

  John Mayer
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Sleep

• If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

  

  John Churton Collins

• A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: 'If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it.' But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to. We've always wanted to do a live album because personally, I think we're a way better band live than on record.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Live
  • Band
  • Weird

• I lived in New York for five years; I've lived in Barcelona, Rome, and Paris at different times. When I was 18, I was dying to live in a city.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • Different
  • Live
  • City