Azzedine Alaia Quotes
I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people.
Quotes to Explore
-
In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
-
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
-
I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
-
It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
-
I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
-
Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
-
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
-
I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
-
Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
-
Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.
-
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
-
There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
-
I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
-
Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
-
It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
-
You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
-
We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
-
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-
If I had been taking hashish, I could not have dreamed of this.
-
I'd rather enjoy meals, order bottles of red wine and eat creme brulee at the end of dinner. Then, when they call you for a photo shoot, you just go, 'Okay, time to hit the treadmill.'
-
Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.
-
I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.
-
I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2.
-
I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people.
