What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.
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Related I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciatio... MAXFIELD PARRISH I do encourage a lot of my audience to give me their interpretation before I explain what was intend... ANTHONY WAICHULIS I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by... UMBERTO ECO I'm tired of someone being called 'quirky' because they tripped or got a stain on their ... JENNY SLATE But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made ter... UMBERTO ECO Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or... CHERIE CARTER-SCOTT Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or... CHERIE CARTER-SCOTT Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people
visualize not what is possible or... CHERIE CARTER-SCOTT Other than my sexuality, I am vulnerable regarding my physical appearance, as I am not what people c... ALEX NEWELL In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a prior... SHAKIRA The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from t... EDWARD LEVI People listen to the music and sense what it is about. Sometimes they know exactly what the songs ar... ENYA People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in th... JAMES WAN People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the... JAMES WAN The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before ... VIRGINIA POSTREL Sometimes, terrorists are even considered as heroes. ANSYAAD MBAI The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical element... WILHELM WUNDT What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so f... MIUCCIA PRADA Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart. MIUCCIA PRADA I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age. MIUCCIA PRADA Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger. MIUCCIA PRADA When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Mayb... MIUCCIA PRADA Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these d... MIUCCIA PRADA Daring to wear something different takes effort. MIUCCIA PRADA Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me,... MIUCCIA PRADA I would say that we have the masculine shape that is kind of oversized. It's not a women's oversized... MIUCCIA PRADA Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intel... MIUCCIA PRADA I like the irony in my work. MIUCCIA PRADA It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring the... MIUCCIA PRADA I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-... MIUCCIA PRADA My learning process is by eye alone; it's not at all scientific. MIUCCIA PRADA I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it. MIUCCIA PRADA I would say that we have the masculine shape that is kind of oversized. It's not a women's oversized... MIUCCIA PRADA Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than ho... MIUCCIA PRADA They are mostly separates, ... We have some skirts matching with some blousons. Mainly, I showed the... MIUCCIA PRADA For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading. MIUCCIA PRADA So there are prints that look kind of geometric, but it's kind of a diamond, computerized tone ... w... MIUCCIA PRADA The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted. MIUCCIA PRADA I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension. MIUCCIA PRADA It's all about wanting to go forward but still having to deal with nostalgia. MIUCCIA PRADA My idea is always to avoid nostalgia, MIUCCIA PRADA Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from... MIUCCIA PRADA If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like. MIUCCIA PRADA I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn... MIUCCIA PRADA One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in th... MIUCCIA PRADA Every day I'm thinking about change. MIUCCIA PRADA I just hate talking about myself. MIUCCIA PRADA I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don't love fashion, but I love clothes completely. MIUCCIA PRADA You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherw... MIUCCIA PRADA For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive. MIUCCIA PRADA The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or ri... MIUCCIA PRADA I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty. MIUCCIA PRADA The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. MIUCCIA PRADA You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste. MIUCCIA PRADA I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first. MIUCCIA PRADA What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality a... MIUCCIA PRADA In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are... TOMMY LEE JONES The IPO market is being considered a luxury now. DAVID MENLOW To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is be... B.O.B I have little or no concern at how people interpret my writing, my only concern is to write it. ROBERT BLACK Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite... YOTAM OTTOLENGHI Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. Lux... KAREN KARBO It's just that sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want. NICHOLAS SPARKS It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want. NICHOLAS SPARKS Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, educa... SHAKIRA I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commo... PHILIP LEVINE I want to give kudos for Nintendo for its attempt at innovation with the new controller, ... bring p... PETER MOORE The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and th... JOHN UPDIKE Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people... KEN AULETTA Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out ... BRIAN TRACY The Knower of the Soul is considered Self Realized (The Enlightened one). The knower of all the eter... DADA BHAGWAN It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop ... PENELOPE FITZGERALD We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what sh... JEAN DE LA FONTAINE She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordina... NICHOLAS SPARKS Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and si... ELIZABETH BIBESCO I've been extremely disappointed to hear evidence for the last three days here that I interpret as a... CHUCK WINFREE What is the greatest benefit in the world? The association with good people. Those who are considere... DADA BHAGWAN When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often con... SARAH JESSICA PARKER Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, do... P. J. O'ROURKE What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp al... DAVID GUTERSON What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred t... ALBERT EINSTEIN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, c... PHILIP LEVINE It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is ... CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE The concept of what you are cannot be defined by the mind, because it is infinite... RENATE VULLINGS I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be... J. C. WATTS Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or... ISABELLA ROSSELLINI I mean typically in any payroll sometimes you have errors because a lot is done manually by payroll ... DWAYNE CROMBIE sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want. NICHOLAS SPARKS Well, fashion’s full of trickery, darling. But if you’re going to believe this season’s Prada ... KELLY CUTRONE There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am... FRED DURST Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary... MARQUIS DE SADE I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of... EVE ARNOLD Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is th... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thi... RALPH BAKSHI The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leade... ROBERT MENZIES He's thinking of [his subjects] as ordinary people who are transformed by a touch from God, rather t... ELEANOR HARVEY
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