Issey Miyake Quotes

When I first began working in Japan, I had to confront the Japanese people's excessive worship for foreign goods and the fixed idea of what clothes ought to be. I wanted to change the rigid formula of clothing that the Japanese followed.

Issey Miyake

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ChangePeopleClothesWorshipFirst

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Jim Fowler

DesertPlantYouFindPlacePotato

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

John Kricfalusi

TalentPeopleUpSystemScrewed

As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.

Matthew Pearl

HistoryBelievePressureYouNew

You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.

Mattie Stepanek

LifeLieYouDownPersonAshes

No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.

Michael C. Burgess

WarStandLookBe PreparedTerrorism

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

Steve Finley

MindSafetySightOutGuardLaws

Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours.

Stephen Evans

LifeTimeDieImportantWillMore

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

Trisha Yearwood

LoveFoodPotatoesFavoriteI Love

My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.

Tom Hardy

FatherHomeMeBackGoIntellectual

I think I'm a really hard worker, and I feel like my attitude is to just enjoy the process of being creative and developing and 'just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.'

Molly Shannon

AttitudeCreativeThinkFeelEnjoy

There is such a thing as bad publicity.

Joyce Brothers

BadPublicityThingSuch A Thing

During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.

Josh Young

LovePerformanceEndDoingStrange

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