Hussein Chalayan Quotes

London gives birth to amazing talent but is rubbish at helping maintain it.

Hussein Chalayan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
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  • Birth: August 12, 1970

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The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.

Andrew Bogut

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The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.

John Katzman

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We know what the customer wants, and so we're buying in a totally different way.

Matthew Williamson

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Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

Maureen Dowd

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Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.

Stanley B. Prusiner

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By the end of my first year at the Dogs, we'd won the competition, and I'd played some pretty good footy.

Sonny Bill Williams

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I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

Tony Blair

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When I'm going to events, I like Armani because I think they do a cross between my relaxed rocky feel and a really smart elegant look really well.

Ruta Gedmintas

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Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.

Mary Beard

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I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.

Michael Sims

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

Colleen McCullough

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