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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.


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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.



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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.



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Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.



In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.



My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.



The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.



Vice is its own reward.

Vice is its own reward.



Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.



No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.



Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.

Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.





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He who must travel happily must travel light.



I've definitely learned more about myself through experimentation over the years - which products work best for my skin and tricks from various makeup artists I've been lucky enough to work with.

I've definitely learned more about myself through experimentation over the years - which products work best for my skin and tricks from various makeup artists I've been lucky enough to work with.



Even though I am in the sneaker world, I am very diverse.

Even though I am in the sneaker world, I am very diverse.



It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.

It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.



In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.



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The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

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