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JANE GOLDMAN I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
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KATIE MCGRATH I always love wearing Vivienne Westwood. Her dresses just seem to fit me perfectly, and she makes dr...
CHARLI XCX I like my squishy, red, high-heeled Vivienne Westwood jelly shoes. They make you seem like you'r...
NINA CONTI Katy Perry is the sexiest woman I've ever kissed. It was amazing and very purple - she had purpl...
NIALL HORAN I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne W...
KATE O'MARA There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it&...
CYNDI LAUPER I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR I wrote a thesis on love, and I wrote it in lipstick. Of course, I also got blood on the paper, beca...
JAROD KINTZ I love purple because my name is Amethyst.
IGGY AZALEA Purple,
Wonder, majesty, and enchantment doesn't
even begin to cover the feelings that I h...
OTTILIE WEBER I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.
BEN LOVETT The reason I started, and got into playing punk as a band was quite mercenary, to be honest. I wante...
GARY NUMAN My worst hairstyle was a bowl cut parted down the middle. It was the '90s. It was what you did. ...
CHRIS EVANS She's probably had that same hairstyle since she was 21, and that's very important to her.
ELIZABETH PERKINS I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, ...
JACK ANTONOFF My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
JONI MITCHELL Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of gl...
GARY KEMP I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the ne...
DEE DEE RAMONE His head had swollen to nearly three times its normal size. His neck was the same. It was wider than...
JO BROWN I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got fa...
BRUCE WILLIS I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I go...
BRUCE WILLIS I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there h...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I think English punk died in '79 or '80. Maybe '82 at the latest. As far as American pun...
GREG GRAFFIN The crowd was so loud. I went out for the warm-ups and they started shouting my name. I never had th...
EMILY HUGHES I've always had the hair of Lionel Ritchie since I was a boy, but the mullet sadly is a hairpiec...
DANNY MCBRIDE I was so excited when I got my name on my bag. Usually when you're an amateur, you can't have your n...
MICHELLE WIE When I was on the '70s Show,' I had that and I had 'Punk'd' and I had my own pro...
ASHTON KUTCHER I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.
HEATHER MORRIS People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
PATTI SMITH I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purp...
CARRIE ANN INABA I think I wanted to be a punk-rocker before I wanted to be anything else. I remember wanting a mohaw...
CEELO GREEN Before loving you, love, nothing was mine:
I hesitated through the streets and things:
not...
PABLO NERUDA By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which ...
BILLY BRAGG Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well ...
MARC DAVIS I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at al...
BILLY BRAGG I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always sho...
DAVID COVERDALE I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then y...
ANDRE AGASSI Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children,...
EYDIE GORME Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think wh...
NENEH CHERRY I always had influences musically with punk, and then growing up, I dyed my hair every color. I did ...
LEIGH LEZARK I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. D...
THERESA MAY I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought th...
JESSIE J On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the l...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL I was better than a punk. I was a protaganist.
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic sy...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial syst...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the wor...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is wort...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, a...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerr...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and kn...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young gene...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change i...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clot...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I can't think without my glasses.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it lo...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is t...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their ow...
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised th...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own fo...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by bu...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, ...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground m...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but eve...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it&#...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that'...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a me...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendo...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body consciou...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I am not a terrorist. Please don't arrest me.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for ...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physiqu...
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the wor...
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is wort...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, a...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerr...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and kn...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young gene...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change i...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clot...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's ...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what sui...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion ...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I can't think without my glasses.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it lo...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is t...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their ow...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their ow...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised th...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own fo...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by bu...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, ...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground m...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but eve...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it&#...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that'...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a me...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendo...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body consciou...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I am not a terrorist. Please don't arrest me.
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to s...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being peop...
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs;...
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Liberty throw away the key.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Discrimination is not done by villains. It's done by us.
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VIVIENNE MING I want to literally make people smarter by jamming things in their brains.
VIVIENNE MING Life is a Learning Process, Learning is a Life-Long Process; You can't separate them.
VIVIENNE FORRESTER The tax on being different is largely implicit. People need not act maliciously for it to be levied....
VIVIENNE MING The traditional markers people use for hiring can be wrong - profoundly wrong.
VIVIENNE MING If my son came to me years from now and told me, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'That's...
VIVIENNE MING Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgro...
VIVIENNE MING We are bad at valuing other people, and we are worse the more different they are than us.
VIVIENNE MING It's important to me that talking about my experience not undermine those who choose differently...
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LEE WESTWOOD I'm a golfer -- not an athlete.
LEE WESTWOOD I'm working my way steadily back and I'm feeling good.
LEE WESTWOOD Adam played great and finished off strong this morning. It was nice to be there or thereabouts.
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LEE WESTWOOD You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting...
LEE WESTWOOD You have to hole the putts when they count. Fortunately for me, I got the killer blow in at the righ...
LEE WESTWOOD You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.
LEE WESTWOOD If it is an examination paper then they are asking a question there is no answer to.
LEE WESTWOOD We are all comfortable in each other's presence and there's a lot of laughing and joking
LEE WESTWOOD You leave [the problem] alone and just try to be there. That's all you can do, ... It's obviously a ...
LEE WESTWOOD My clubs are already on the way to Akron, I just came back with a putter, a ball, a hat and some sho...
LEE WESTWOOD The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.
LEE WESTWOOD He can switch from a kid apparently playing for the heck of it, to someone with the predatory instin...
LEE WESTWOOD It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time...
LEE WESTWOOD Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the major...
LEE WESTWOOD Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year i...
LEE WESTWOOD I was like a swan - sort of gliding on the top, but my legs were paddling underneath.
LEE WESTWOOD I've played a lot better over here this year, ... I've shot a lot lower scores; I just haven't reall...
LEE WESTWOOD I'm a golfer - not an athlete.
LEE WESTWOOD Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's ju...
LEE WESTWOOD I'm a golfer - not an athlete.
LEE WESTWOOD