Suzy Menkes Quotes

Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied access. She famously took off her pants and walked in wearing only the jacket. And it was that kind of revolution that was echoed in fashion and in life.

Suzy Menkes

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The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.

Joan Didion

ChildMeRoseStrongBlackClothes

If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.

John Dingell

TrustPeaceWarThinkFactsHouse

If people are honest, they'll admit that I do have a fan base.

Andre Ward

PeopleAdmitHonestFanFan Base

I just like doing things from my own head.

Andrea Arnold

DoingMy OwnHeadOwnThingsJust

I grew up under the spell of London. Illustrator Kerry Lee's evocative 1950 wall map of the city hung above our breakfast table at home in Canada. Over my corn flakes, I traced the capital's high roads and medieval alleys.

Rory MacLean

HomeRoadsCityBreakfastWallMap

Everyone has things that they don't love about themselves but I think that as a woman its much healthier and more positive to focus on your good parts and the things you like about yourself, not pick yourself apart.

Miranda Kerr

PositiveLoveGoodFocusWomanYou

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.

Louise Mensch

PoliticsPeopleBelieveThinkYou

You can't win them all.

Connie Mack

WinYouThem

Wisconsin's a special place.

Brett Favre

PlaceSpecialSpecial PlaceWisconsin

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

Antonio Porchia

WordsSayNeverThey SayAlways

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

William H. Wharton

KnowledgePropertyUsLawsGovern

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

Philip Sidney

TimeLightYouthWorldOpinions

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