Azzedine Alaia Quotes

I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women.

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• Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Great
  • Women
  • Man

• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Winning
  • Moment
  • Luck

• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Attention
  • Start

• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Water
  • Always
  • Drink

• I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Greek
  • Fruit
  • Yogurt

• If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Country
  • Serious
  • Generation

• I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• I eat a lot of chocolate.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Chocolate
  • Eat
  • Lot

• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Try
  • Escape

• Men are every bit as gendered as women.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bit

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Strong
  • Community

• Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Sympathetic

• I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Funny

• I can't go on. I'll go on.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Go
  • Moving On

• I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Good
  • Work
  • Doing Good

• Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Live
  • Patriarchy
  • Doctrinaire

• Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

  

  Jeanne Moreau

• When I first started, I was much weaker of a singer because I wasn't used to singing so much. Now I've learned, when I'm singing on stage, not to go over. You can go over and mess yourself up. I used to do it all the time, wouldn't know how to preserve it for the next show.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • Up
  • Time
  • Singing

• We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
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