Suzy Menkes Quotes

Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits. Maybe my penchant for hippie-deluxe eccentricity came from an escapist dream of a different world. It was tough being a working mom in the 1970s.

Suzy Menkes

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ArtMomWorldToughSuitsYou

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

John Agyekum Kufuor

EducationHigher EducationAfrica

I am not a political person, so I cannot comment on politics.

Andrew Tan

PoliticsI AmPoliticalPersonAm

The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend's husband and sometimes it's your father. It's weird. But that's a fact of life.

Meg Rosoff

LifeLoveFriendFatherTruthBest

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

Lucy Liu

CharacterLanguageYouCostumeOnce

I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.

Jayne Anne Phillips

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To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

Dick Cavett

TimeHolidayNewTrafficCallYork

Police officers see everything, and they experience everything, and they don't always act correctly.

Cheo Hodari Coker

ExperiencePolicePolice OfficersSee

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

Anthony Zinni

ViolenceYouMatterMayGiveDeal

In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.

Peter Diamandis

BubbleFirstLaunchCostMillion

Truth is, I love to play bartender and assist my husband at the BBQ.

Sherry Yard

LoveTruthHusbandTruth IsPlay

I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London.

Sebastian Coe

ChangeMemoryPeopleOpportunities

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

TruthSciencePeopleDemocracyLearn

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