Azzedine Alaia Quotes

I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire history of the kings of France. And I was fascinated by Versailles.

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• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
  • Honest

• Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Best
  • Working
  • Minimum Wage

• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Bad
  • Respect
  • Government

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Country
  • Power
  • Economic

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Nature

• 'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.

  

  Yuna
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Luxury

• I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Graduation

• But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Good
  • Body
  • Looks

• I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Birthday

• I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Family
  • Love
  • Parents

• If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Going
  • Colour
  • Inequality

• The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Choices
  • Better
  • Depression

• I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Easily
  • Embarrass

• I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Growth

• Family dramas are tough, as a playwright. Most stories are about characters going on a trip or a new character coming to town, because that's how you learn information about them. But with family, they all know each other already. There's years of history in every interaction.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Family
  • Character
  • History

• I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Time
  • History

• I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

  

  David Bowie
  • Writing
  • Mean
  • Artist

• I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire history of the kings of France. And I was fascinated by Versailles.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • History
  • Arabic