Issey Miyake Quotes

#1. The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.

Sam Bradford

#2. I have always worked a bit with fashion people. I worked with Issey Miyake for a while, then Dolce & Gabbana; now we're working with Valentino. It's fine. The fashion world is a fairly weird world, but there are good people in it. It's weird because their timetables are unbearable.

David Chipperfield

#3. By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

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#4. The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

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#5. Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

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#6. Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important.

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#7. I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

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#8. In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

David Bezmozgis

#9. Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.

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#10. At the same time, we can't blame comedians for taking time to learn. Any critic of comedy who believes that he has always, universally, been on the right side of justice is engaging in a hypocrisy that is itself a joke.

Guy Branum

#11. For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.

Michael Koryta

#12. Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

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#13. The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energy. A perfume that, like a garment, moves to suit the woman, her skin. A perfume that embraces a woman.

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#14. I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a
musician.

Keith Richards

#15. I think you'd have to be a pretty brave man to say "never go out of style," but men's suiting has been relatively stable for 100 years now. The single-breasted, two-button gray flannel suit, you could've worn it in exactly the same cut, shape and fabric in 1910 as you wear it in 2010.

Patrick Grant

#16. I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

Alan Jackson

#17. You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.

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#18. Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

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#19. We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric.

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#20. They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change ... I don't have sympathy, no.

Brendan Rodgers

#21. To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.

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#22. Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process.

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#23. A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

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#24. Work for money, design for love.

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#25. 'Sweet Dreams' is such a dark-sounding song, but it's about not taking anything for granted; share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

Angel Olsen

#26. I have worked with several dance companies.

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#27. I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

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#28. I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

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#29. I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

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#30. I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.

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#31. Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

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#32. One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else.

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#33. From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.

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#34. It looks as though it hurt."
"It did."
"Did you cry?"
His fists clenched involuntarily at his sides. "Yes!"
Jenny walked back around to face him, pointed chin lifted and slanted eyes wide and bright. "So did I," she said softly. "Every day since they took ye away.

Diana Gabaldon

#35. You'd have coffee on a drip if you could, wouldn't you?

Kristina Adams

#36. I very much like dance and dancers.

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