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I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.


Gianni Versace

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EMANUEL UNGARO I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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MAUREEN ORTH Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bo...
M.I.A. I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.
JACLYN SMITH I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's ...
PAT TOOMEY The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture ...
M.I.A. It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningfu...
RYAN NORTH I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.
DAN SAVAGE As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and ...
PATRICIA NORRIS The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don&...
FRANK BLACK I love Versace; I love Donatella's vision! It still has that '90s supermodel vibe.
BEHATI PRINSLOO When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think ...
ANNABELLE SELLDORF If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.
AYUMI HAMASAKI I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to ch...
TOM BRADY I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to brea...
JOICHI ITO If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about i...
RUSSELL CROWE If you take me out of it, I find 'six degrees' to be a beautiful concept that we should try ...
KEVIN BACON We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills...
DAN WEBSTER It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a ...
DONATELLA VERSACE I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, ...
LORETTA SANCHEZ Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a f...
ADAM SAVAGE That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make ...
JACKSON BROWNE I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat mor...
SALLY PHILLIPS Break down the barriers. Just let go and bury it.
KIRPA RAI I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of ...
DITA VON TEESE Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it...
HELEN FISHER As a General Authority, it is my responsibility to preach general principles. When I do, I don't try...
DALLIN H. OAKS I think there's a social responsibility that comes with a public platform. Because of the positi...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think di...
BILL PLYMPTON I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find th...
OLIVER STONE I'm happy to break down barriers and be a role model, but I don't want that to be the only thing peo...
GWEN IFILL The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule.
NUNO ROQUE I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, C...
JANICE DICKINSON I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.
CARLY RAE JEPSEN Many young people don't know what Versace represent. I want to show what makes Versace an iconic...
DONATELLA VERSACE It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all thes...
LORI LOUGHLIN I have always looked for ways to give back because I think it's a responsibility we all share.
AVRIL LAVIGNE It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I'd like to think that we continue to break through new barriers, ... Certainly the goal always is t...
JIM IRSAY I love to see those barriers broken. What I'm really hoping is that we can get break the barriers an...
GEENA DAVIS People are trapped in their superstitions and racism and it's hard to break down those barriers. Our...
DEANNA DEYOUNG I wouldn't say there is one specific designer I rock. It's more of the look of the shirt and...
COLIN KAEPERNICK I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility....
OPRAH WINFREY I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.
CARSON KRESSLEY I just remember Stella Tenant and me dancing in Donatella Versace's bathtub until like four in t...
CAROLYN MURPHY When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS... “Wisdom is the subtlety of knowing which rules to bend and which rules to break”
SARA LOKEY I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get p...
EUGENE LEVY Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to sti...
BOB UECKER Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
CARA DELEVINGNE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires,...
BEAU WILLIMON It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
DAVID DUCHOVNY There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.
DOUGLAS WILSON Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for m...
FAITH EVANS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS I think about the structure, sure. I think about what's going to happen, and how it's going ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying...
TONY LEVIN I think people have a responsibility, if they write a letter, to make sure that they saw it themselv...
DIANE ENGLISH I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's li...
HALEY BENNETT One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in te...
KEN ADAM Our job is to break down those barriers -- whether they are tariff or non-tariff barriers -- because...
JIM MENDENHALL The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a t...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD It's very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I'll read a story in the pap...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it ...
AUTRE NE VEUT I'm a fashion designer. I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend.
L'WREN SCOTT I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to brea...
JOICHI ITO The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barrie...
LAURA SAN GIACOMO You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I ...
PETER DINKLAGE I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images ...
BARBARA KRUGER I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the con...
J. IRWIN MILLER I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it...
DANA PLATO

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GIANNI VERSACE My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
GIANNI VERSACE I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.
GIANNI VERSACE It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.
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GIANNI VERSACE Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.
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GIANNI VERSACE I liked women as a shape to dress.
GIANNI VERSACE I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.
GIANNI VERSACE I want always to be positive.
GIANNI VERSACE I never fall down. I always fight.
GIANNI VERSACE I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
GIANNI VERSACE I want to be the joy to people through my work.
GIANNI VERSACE I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
GIANNI VERSACE I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
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