My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.
Chanel Iman
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KELLY JONES Listening to all these different musical genres from all over the world and listening to my father...
LUKAS FORCHHAMMER Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.
DAVID GUETTA I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confu...
SOPHIE HAWLEY-WELD My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.
AVICII The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND I've always been fond of my heritage, particularly my Irish heritage. But I'm also from all ...
EUGENE SIMON My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also o...
CHRIS STAPLETON I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash....
ADAM HICKS Maybe its maturity or the wisdom that comes with age, but the witch in Hansel and Gretel-she's very ...
MIRANDA HOBBS FROM SEX AND THE CITY We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's th...
COCO LEE We once succsessfully breeded a bull dog and a shitzu, and we called it a bull shit.
JEFF DANIALS FROM DUMB AND DUMBER Sometimes it is not what you say but what is heard that is remembered.
JAIME CONTRERAS Upon achieving a lifelong dream, I thought, this is the way to live your life -- in the moment, and ...
LORII MYERS Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magaz...
RACHEL KUSHNER Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.
GEORGE ORWELL Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from ...
NELLY FURTADO I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have ...
BAT FOR LASHES Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo...
DANIEL OJEDA A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p...
RON CARPENTER JR. Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of...
DANIELLE DE NIESE In my errant life I roamed
To learn the secrets of women and men,
Of gods and dreams.
ROMAN PAYNE To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I'm a musician, but listenin...
AUSTIN MAHONE When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of t...
MARSHALL FISHWICK I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from play...
GARY BURTON Mis-information is rampant in this great age of mass-information. While we have more access to learn...
DAVID D. FLOWERS My mood board is archival images of Brigitte Bardot and Iman, and Naomi Campbell in the '90s.
JILLIAN HERVEY From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, l...
LARA PULVER I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
FELICITY JONES In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, Fre...
TAHAR RAHIM My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbill...
CHARLIE HADEN All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just musi...
OZZY OSBOURNE My good man, from Amsterdam.
BEN OAK And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY The source for any inspiration comes from sights, sounds, smell, taste, and touch.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO little bits here and there from people who hear my story.
HELEN ROBERTS I don't wear heels. I'm all about flats from Chanel and wedges. I love my Gucci wedge boots.
JOURDAN DUNN I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.
BEN KATCHOR Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill!
SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more.
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne...
SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives.
SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca...
SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria]
SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ...
SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.
SEX AND THE CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey]
SEX AND THE CITY My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou...
SEX AND THE CITY Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story.
SEX AND THE CITY No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave.
SEX AND THE CITY I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS What's the big mystery? It's my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS the lights fade to black.
SEX AND THE CITY Yeah, I would love to. I don't know if I'd do another singing one.
SEX AND THE CITY Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!"
SEX AND THE CITY F*** me badly once, shame on you. F*** me badly twice, shame on me.
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COCO CHANEL Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
COCO CHANEL In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
COCO CHANEL Elegance is refusal.
COCO CHANEL I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
COCO CHANEL Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.
COCO CHANEL Fashion changes, but style endures.
COCO CHANEL Great loves too must be endured.
COCO CHANEL Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand p...
COCO CHANEL As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
COCO CHANEL It is always better to be slightly underdressed.
COCO CHANEL There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves ...
COCO CHANEL If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
COCO CHANEL A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
COCO CHANEL You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
COCO CHANEL In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.
COCO CHANEL It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me...
COCO CHANEL Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
COCO CHANEL Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
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COCO CHANEL I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
COCO CHANEL My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
COCO CHANEL I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
COCO CHANEL How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
COCO CHANEL My friends, there are no friends.
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COCO CHANEL Dress shabbily, they notice the dress. Dress impeccably, they notice the woman.
COCO CHANEL Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
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COCO CHANEL Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
COCO CHANEL Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
COCO CHANEL How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. -Coco Chanel.
COCO CHANEL There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
COCO CHANEL There are people who have money and people who are rich.
COCO CHANEL In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
COCO CHANEL Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
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COCO CHANEL The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
COCO CHANEL There are people who have money and people who are rich.
COCO CHANEL Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
COCO CHANEL Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
COCO CHANEL Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
COCO CHANEL Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
COCO CHANEL As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
COCO CHANEL Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom ...
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COCO CHANEL Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
COCO CHANEL A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
COCO CHANEL Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
COCO CHANEL If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!
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COCO CHANEL Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
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COCO CHANEL Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
COCO CHANEL Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
COCO CHANEL A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
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COCO CHANEL Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
COCO CHANEL When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.
COCO CHANEL A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
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COCO CHANEL Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
COCO CHANEL Don't be like the rest of them, darling.
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COCO CHANEL Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.
COCO CHANEL There are people who have money and people who are rich.
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