Andre Leon Talley Quotes

Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.

Andre Leon Talley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 16, 1949

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The downside to the Whole Foods experience is that its success is driven by one of our era's more grotesque phenomena: the upwardly-mobile urban dweller, the one who wants to indulge class-conscious epicurean yearnings and save the world, too.

Andrew Breitbart

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Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.

Matthew Lewis

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I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.

Amitava Kumar

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I sing, and I really should've stuck with it, because it's really what I love to do. It's probably what I'm best at, too.

Stephanie Zimbalist

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When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Sue Monk Kidd

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I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn't heard of the books, but I was told they were very popular amongst the kids, so I got a hold of them and read them. I totally got it!

Steve Valentine

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There is no greater example of government overreach and unrestrained liberalism than 'Obamacare.' It is so deeply flawed and such a clear and present threat to our economic stability that there is no way to fix it.

Tommy Thompson

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I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

Tony Judt

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There's the issue of hunger, and there's an issue of if you're going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down?

Tom Colicchio

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If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

Rob Bell

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Latin America is convinced that, starting with South America, our way forward is to consolidate the process of integration: not theoretical integration - the integration of speeches - but physical integration, with infrastructure, with roads, with railways, with communications, with energy.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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I like to talk. That's why I can't karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a public space.

Liza Lapira

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