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VICTORIA BECKHAM My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.
ANNE ROBINSON I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
DONATELLA VERSACE Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal.
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It...
MARC JACOBS I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself b...
JOHN BURNSIDE I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
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SETH SHOSTAK I am a California girl, born and raised, so flip-flops and cutoff shorts are my go-to look. An easy ...
MEGHAN MARKLE Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making ...
KARISMA KAPOOR I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never w...
MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do...
AUDREY HEPBURN Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did...
FRANK DARABONT I've never really focused on my ranking per se because it's out of my control. I try and do ...
EUGENIE BOUCHARD When I started at Bloomingdale's as a buyer, Alexander's was a discounter across the street,...
MICKEY DREXLER It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.
JOHN MAYER Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.
IMELDA STAUNTON It's good to be slightly ambitious, but I believe one shouldn't be too calculative. It's...
DEEPIKA PADUKONE I like edgy but classic looks - like Chanel mixed with Alexander McQueen. My personal style is edgie...
ASHLEY BENSON Because I look Asian, when I am showing in Europe or North America, people tend to approach my work ...
ED PIEN When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at ...
JENSON BUTTON I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focu...
GINA RODRIGUEZ Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year...
EBERHARD WEBER I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. Th...
LUKE BRACEY I've learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may no...
GIGI HADID You can be someone's friend and have sex with them. The trick is you have to want their emotional an...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of abi...
CONFUCIUS I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's li...
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to w...
KIRSTEN DUNST Don't expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madon...
RICK ASTLEY I'm happy and I'm focused on my work... it's incredible to be able to work with 20th Cen...
EIZA GONZALEZ My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it's a selfie video or a...
QANDEEL BALOCH Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN It's not a case of 'look at me in my car'; it's more, 'look at the car'. I l...
JAY KAY My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with...
JOHNNY VEGAS I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with ...
SONAKSHI SINHA Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of ...
BETH BRODERICK I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.
JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD Irrespective of who's up against me at tournaments, I have always relied completely on my own st...
CHEN LONG People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not...
ANNA WINTOUR Maria Sharapova winning Wimbledon at 17, I don't think that's ever going to happen again. It...
EUGENIE BOUCHARD I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff wri...
HAMPTON SIDES I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny ...
EL DEBARGE Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
ORLANDO BLOOM I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.
BESS MYERSON I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focuse...
VICTORIA BECKHAM There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alex...
TAYLOR SWIFT I had to just stay focused on my own jump.
JANA LINDSEY I've taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that...
JEREMY SCOTT I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.
MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mi...
DEBBIE ALLEN What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I don't mind people looking at me. That's never bothered me. I don't want them looking a...
ZACK GREINKE In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I...
BRIAN GREENE I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never bee...
RINGO STARR It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline mu...
CHARLES DICKENS In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about ...
JASMINE GUINNESS I just freestyle. I don't actually write the words on paper. It's just whatever comes into m...
TORY LANEZ I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their ch...
LARRY THE CABLE GUY I get typecast as doctors, principals, middle-management-type guys - which, when you look at me, you...
BRIAN HUSKEY I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne W...
KATIE MCGRATH I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever a...
BRITTANY SNOW If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an...
JR I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to ta...
ALAN BALL I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's b...
STEPHANIE ZIMBALIST It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you k...
JACK OSBOURNE I have two prosthetic legs. This is my life; what am I going to do with it? And it's put me on t...
AMY PURDY I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead arti...
HOWARD HODGKIN My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.
CHRISTIAN KANE I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to b...
JACKI WEAVER I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
GABOUREY SIDIBE I just think I'm OK, ... The object of most of my work has been to raise it above my standard. And s...
ERIC CLAPTON I'm a historian in my own mind.
QUENTIN TARANTINO You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces bet...
KEITH JARRETT My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.
ELLEN GALLAGHER At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving ...
PADDY CONSIDINE It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly perta...
JACK OSBOURNE I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to ...
BRUCE WEBER I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have ...
TONI MORRISON I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.
DARON MALAKIAN As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the d...
CAMERON BRIGHT I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My famil...
A. R. RAHMAN My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
NATALIE MASSENET I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I...
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AL YANKOVIC I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never hi...
CHRISTOPHER KOCH I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make...
PAMELA STEPHENSON I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don...
BRIAN MCKNIGHT I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in 'Sparkle,' bu...
LESLEY MANVILLE It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and d...
DAVID CASSIDY One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel...
ANNIE BRYANT I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the...
GARTH DAVIS My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But tha...
ELLEN GALLAGHER It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I ne...
MARY MCDONNELL I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.
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ALEXANDER CHASE Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so...
ALEXANDER CHASE A man's home is his wife's castle
ALEXANDER CHASE Memory is the thing you forget with
ALEXANDER CHASE People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
ALEXANDER CHASE Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
ALEXANDER CHASE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays til...
ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
ALEXANDER POPE We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
ALEXANDER COMFORT My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.
SHAUN ALEXANDER A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
ALEXANDER POPE What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh...
JAIMIE ALEXANDER Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE