Alexander Wang quote: "You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin."

I've always loved when girls carry their wallets as a clutch instead of a bag.
ALEXANDER WANG

My friends always joke that I run on batteries.
ALEXANDER WANG

I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of ...
ALEXANDER WANG

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'...
ALEXANDER WANG

I don't care how small or big they are, insects freak me out.
ALEXANDER WANG

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin...
ALEXANDER WANG

I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and...
ALEXANDER WANG

My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pi...
ALEXANDER WANG

Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and t...
ALEXANDER WANG

When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.
ALEXANDER WANG

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.
ALEXANDER WANG

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much ...
ALEXANDER WANG

I tend to like the most basic pieces with the perfect fit and fabric, like a simple tank.
ALEXANDER WANG

The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to...
ALEXANDER WANG

When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category....
ALEXANDER WANG

I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to wor...
ALEXANDER WANG

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in product...
ALEXANDER WANG

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.
ALEXANDER WANG

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goe...
ALEXANDER WANG

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.
ALEXANDER WANG

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.
ALEXANDER WANG

It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're alway...
ALEXANDER WANG

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It does...
VERA WANG

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for othe...
VERA WANG

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in on...
VERA WANG

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest o...
VERA WANG

I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always ...
VERA WANG

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays...
VERA WANG

I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go ...
VERA WANG

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was ...
VERA WANG

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder...
VERA WANG

My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another...
VERA WANG

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
VERA WANG

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose th...
VERA WANG

I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
VERA WANG

It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging.
VERA WANG

It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
VERA WANG

People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, parti...
VERA WANG

Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
VERA WANG

The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - ...
WANG LEEHOM

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software pro...
WANG LEEHOM

I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
WANG JIANLIN

I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal rela...
WANG JIANLIN

The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.
WANG JIANLIN

China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.
WANG JIANLIN

Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
WANG JIANLIN

There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the sam...
WANG JIANLIN

If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - th...
WANG JIANLIN

The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
WANG JIANLIN

Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to deve...
WANG JIANLIN

If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
WANG JIANLIN

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with t...
WANG JIANLIN

Wanda and Reliance are two of the largest private conglomerates in their respective countries. By jo...
WANG JIANLIN

Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less...
WANG JIANLIN

Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs i...
WANG JIANLIN

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes'...
WANG JIANLIN

Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultur...
WANG JIANLIN

Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step for...
WANG JIANLIN

Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
WANG JIANLIN

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
WANG JIANLIN

Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fa...
WANG JIANLIN

In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departme...
WANG JIANLIN

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsi...
WANG JIANLIN

The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.
WANG JIANLIN

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
WANG LEEHOM

I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I fee...
WANG LEEHOM

I've never really had the urge to make an English album.
WANG LEEHOM

The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
WANG LEEHOM

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
VERA WANG

When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina...
PATRICK WANG

I kind of treat myself like the audience. I don't like being lectured.
PATRICK WANG

I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human...
PATRICK WANG

Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
PATRICK WANG

I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and i...
PATRICK WANG

If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find...
PATRICK WANG

It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yo...
VERA WANG

It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed...
VERA WANG

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I re...
VERA WANG

It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
WANG SHI

I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
VERA WANG

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that peop...
VERA WANG

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
AN WANG

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those m...
AN WANG

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form w...
AN WANG

Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vag...
SHENG WANG

The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along wit...
ROGER WANG

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is...
VERA WANG

To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredi...
VERA WANG

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophisticatio...
VERA WANG

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the ide...
VERA WANG

China is a government-oriented economy. No one can say he can run his business entirely without gove...
WANG JIANLIN

Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
WANG JIANLIN

I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearin...
VERA WANG

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
AN WANG

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
AN WANG

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will...
AN WANG

I founded Wang Laboratories to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries ...
AN WANG

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another r...
AN WANG

Ultimate Baseball Online brings the 'team experience' to the sports gaming experience. A team of peo...
ANDY WANG

Every business traveler has a unique set of preferences when they take technology on the road. We ha...
ANDY WANG

I also want to imply we are from the same God. We are celebrating the same day, we are from the same...
ANDY WANG

I love it here. I believe my father would be happy for me and my daughter.
ANDY WANG

It was a special occasion for the girls. In the old time, girls were not able to be seen. It was the...
ANDY WANG

It's very important community time for the family.
ANDY WANG

In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities wil...
WANG SHI

Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home applia...
WANG JIANLIN

The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your m...
VERA WANG

I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
VERA WANG

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped ...
VERA WANG

I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straigh...
VERA WANG

My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and ...
VERA WANG

My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designi...
VERA WANG

Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC ...
CHER WANG

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that wil...
AN WANG

Engage local technology and have that spread. We have to all grow together.
CHARLES WANG

Properly handling petitions is an indispensable and irreplaceable job that should not be neglected i...
WANG GANG

It is our prime goal to probe into the secrets of space and explore and utilize resources.
WANG YONGZHI

Consequently, cohabitation becomes an acceptable halfway relationship, which can be dissolved more e...
WANG XUN

Many elderly people choose cohabitation to avoid opposition from their adult children. A remarriage ...
WANG XUN

Cohabitation among elderly people is becoming more common in Chinese society.
WANG XUN

He's like an unbeatable person. How could he just vanish?
CHARLES WANG

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
VERA WANG

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instin...
VERA WANG

They are seeking to make it virtually impossible for shareholders to amend the bylaws or remove a ma...
CHARLES WANG

This produced much stronger ground motion than similar quakes centered at Swan Island or Kelley Poin...
YUMEI WANG

I've got all the aches and pains someone could have in 7 years, ... It's only 7 or 8 more years to g...
WANG SHUO

We will set limits to the amount of bear bile to be extracted and the number of bears to be raised i...
WANG WEI

We have introduced painless practices for extracting bear bile. Until we can find a good substitute ...
WANG WEI

We will carry out the investigation using the fund offered by White-flag Dolphin Foundation based in...
WANG LI

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, whi...
VERA WANG

This has played an irreplaceable important role in promoting the steady development of relations bet...
WANG JIARUI

It's sad that they can see only black and white.
WANG XIAOFENG

In the past year, those who can be gotten rid of have been gotten rid of. Those who can be disposed ...
WANG XIAOFENG

Orbital capsule is the place for astronauts to live and work during their space flight.
WANG YONGZHI

The abuse of ecstasy in entertainment pubs in large and medium cities of China was increasingly cons...
WANG GANG

There are a lot of similarities between Buddhist teachings and good management practices.
WANG FANGHUA

My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
VERA WANG

I’m not sure how old I was when I first tried looking in the mirror and telling myself, with a shi...
M.L. WANG

BT is just the last straw to the network and it is a good excuse for telecom operators to avoid thei...
ALAN WANG

Now I can download at only 20 to 50 kilobits a second. No one has told me why.
ALAN WANG

Both sides reiterated their commitment to a peaceful resolution of the Korean nuclear issue by dialo...
WANG JIARUI

The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled...
VERA WANG

Every day China has 200 newly infected people. We should say the situation is still very serious.
WANG LONGDE

Some localities fear that reporting a rise in reported cases will damage their political standing an...
WANG LONGDE

We have an obesity epidemic, with more than 20 percent of our 7-17 year old children in urban center...
WANG LONGDE

not only have sex with men, but also with women.
WANG LONGDE

The 2005 figure turned out to be lower than that of 2003, because the number of those who had contra...
WANG LONGDE

Almost 200 people are infected every day in China. The situation is grave.
WANG LONGDE

We move forward according to our original plan. Next year we will produce a sports car here. After t...
WANG HONGBIAO

I don't really realize that I am the Olympic champion. I still don't feel it. I still feel tense. I ...
WANG MENG

Basically we now have the 'painless extraction' method. The bear's pain has been greatly reduced.
WANG WEI

Before we find good alternatives for bear bile, we do not have a timetable to eliminate the practice...
WANG WEI

In the future we need to make an effort to more clearly define major illness insurance, the types of...
WANG ZHICHAO

Temperatures have been climbing in recent years on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
WANG LING

They can't live in a void. They must interact with their changing environment. Everything they eat, ...
WANG FANGHUA

Through the MBA program, we hope to make the monks aware that a profit-driven method in management w...
WANG FANGHUA

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure ...
CHER WANG

The takeover will help us tap the neighboring overseas market, which has an environment similar to t...
WANG JIANZHOU

Hong Kong players' unprecedented enthusiasm in the mainland's insurance sector is mainly due to the ...
WANG GUOJUN

The cruel farming practice has basically been abolished.
WANG WEI

I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, the...
VERA WANG

both should maintain high level contacts, enrich economic and trade cooperation and consolidate coll...
WANG JIARUI

This could help Chinese insurers earn more from their investment and help them better match their li...
WANG GUOJUN

The rights of the returned Chinese should be well protected, as they make a vital contribution to Ch...
WANG ZHAOGUO

(In China) we play most teams who play with lots of passing. American hockey is very physical. I was...
ANFU WANG

Hockey is popular in my area by Russia. Winter sports are only in certain areas. In the south part o...
ANFU WANG

His voice and tone were similar to the secretary-general.
WANG GUOLIANG

We simply provide a platform on which registered users publish dealing information by themselves.
WANG JIAN

I felt I would have the bronze medal. I felt the Korean team did something.
WANG MENG

Meanwhile, we hope they (firms and associations) can give analyses and proposals for resolving probl...
WANG SHICHUN

Those who try to prevent the journalists from reporting the truth, especially those who resort to vi...
WANG WEIZHONG

It will continue to be a guide for our future policy-making to treat people's homes differently from...
WANG LI

The game was first introduced to the Chinese mainland in the late 1990s by some overseas Chinese stu...
LINDA WANG

The risk of investing in Chinese contemporary oil paintings is low, since the cost is comparatively ...
WANG YI

This is a significant breakthrough of China's space technology since the successful spaceflight of m...
WANG YONGZHI

The E.U.'s proposed plan to impose anti-dumping duty on imported Chinese shoes is unjust and lacks o...
WANG SHICHUN

This interruption should not be seen as a waste of time. By allowing more debates, we will have a be...
WANG LIMING

For one thing, it will be the first time Tyson has even visited our town, and he has never made any ...
WANG QIQUAN

We didn't think it was appropriate to make Tyson an honorary citizen so we dropped the plan. Many pe...
WANG QIQUAN

This is an effort to prevent software piracy at source. These policies will strengthen the protectio...
WANG ZIQIANG

Many chefs do not even know the nutrient content in the raw materials and how to arrange them togeth...
WANG YI

As you know, the DPRK is still facing a lot of difficulties, ... The Communist Party and government ...
WANG JIARUI

There is huge potential in rural regions. Lower subscriber acquisition cost may bring in huge profit...
WANG JIANZHOU

Right now, we are still in talks with South Africa and Turkey on this issue.
WANG SHICHUN

We just need a more rational balance between profits and risks.
WANG DONGSHENG

I am no fortune-teller, but from my observations we have reason to believe that the fifth round of t...
WANG JIARUI

Among the three technologies that can be used, we will give the greatest support to homegrown intell...
WANG XUDONG

Chinese film needs a brand-new generation of actors and actresses and more and more people will be n...
WANG LONG

The technology has been fully tested and is undergoing a large technical trial which is a prelude to...
WANG JING

I know to become a film star is not that easy. It takes performing skills, knowledge and insight, an...
WANG LONG

The Ministry is lending ears to all walks of life including the HIV infected, looking for room to im...
WANG LONGDE

We're not in favor of sanctions. We still have time to be flexible, to work diplomatic solutions. I ...
WANG GUANGYA

The recent flurry of diplomacy is good preparation for these talks and helps in understanding,
WANG YI

This is a topic that was specifically mentioned in the fourth round, that North Korea has the right ...
WANG JIARUI

Such storage of virus strains resemble duplicating machines in that we can quickly copy and update a...
WANG XIAOFANG

In terms of comprehensive national prowess, China stands among the secondary tier of world powers, g...
WANG LING

The Law School is not only the cradle of China's jurists but has also created a favorable atmosphere...
WANG LIMING

[Then she moved into the eveningwear, fragrance and tabletop categories. This is only her second yea...
VERA WANG

To any engineer looking at this, you would have immediate concerns because the columns are skinny an...
YUMEI WANG

It appears that investor sentiment for upstream semiconductor-related shares has been strong.
SHAWN WANG

You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.

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You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.

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