Renzo Rosso Quotes

#1. Different times call for different attitudes. But I love your generation because you are so creative and innovative in how you wear things, how you think, how you approach everything.

Renzo Rosso

#2. The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

Malorie Blackman

#3. When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers in a big Cadillac started to do a picnic. I looked at them like they were coming from the moon. I remember they gave me a box of rice pudding - that, for me, was the American Dream.

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#4. When you have new jeans, you don't like the ones you just wore. It's crazy, but that's fashion.

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#5. My rule in relation to time management and teaching is simple: "If you're on time, you're late!" That means that if you arrive just on time to teach, you have no flexibility. In essence nothing can go wrong, and in addition to that, your mind probably won't settle until halfway through the class.

Gudjon Bergmann

#6. Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna - will inspire fashion. And we, in turn, will inspire them.

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#7. The Diesel team has incredible passion. We work for ourselves and design for ourselves. When I see a new watch in our collection, I go crazy. I want one of everything.

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#8. We're always trying to break the boundaries of what a 'denim brand' can be, and we want to be respected for it.

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#9. Diesel is the only example of a casualwear or sportswear company that became a luxury brand.

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#10. God will constantly send people to you who need the fruit of your ministry

Sunday Adelaja

#11. By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.

Caroline Leavitt

#12. Sometimes you don't have the time to prepare yourself for looking good in front of the mirror with what you're wearing. And then when you go to work or go out, you don't like it. I spend a lot of time preparing.

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#13. Diesel pioneered the idea of luxury denim, and we still drive this market. But it encompasses more: the consumers love the brand, the lifestyle, the mentality of Diesel.

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#14. Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies.

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#15. I had always imagined being in love as some grand, sweeping epic. A prince on a white horse. Dashing.

Allison Parr

#16. It's playing with the idea of what musicians wear when they play live, especially focusing on the evolution of what a musician wears when they first start their career, when they are young and wild, to how they dress when they become famous and more polished.

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#17. The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Elbert Hubbard

#18. We inside Diesel are the first consumers of our advertising. We make ad campaigns for our own amusement - that's why they succeed.

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#19. I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

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#20. I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate.

Paul Watson

#21. In fashion, I think I make mistakes every day.

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#22. Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.

Mark Haddon

#23. In order for fashion to progress, we have to always be willing to invest in someone or something new and embrace risks, regardless of the economy.

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#24. You're afraid of becoming your dad. You don't want to choose the wrong thing, so you don't choose anything at all.

Nicola Yoon

#25. Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.

Theodore J. Forstmann

#26. Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

#27. But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

Douglas Hurd

#28. I want to take time for myself, because all my life is ta-ta-ta-ta. So I don't want nothing special, just to breathe. I'd like to work maybe a half day and then take my bicycle and go by the riverside.

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#29. We assumed the customers were smart and that they'll buy what they like, not what the ads tell them to buy.

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#30. In New York, I wear dark denim most of the time.

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#31. I'm tired of advertising! I'm looking for new solutions that make people laugh and amuse. Italian creativity is too narrow, it still hasn't overcome the dichotomy limits between heaven and hell.

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#32. The real product at Diesel is satisfaction. My satisfaction at Diesel is being a pioneer.

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#33. We are combining elements like tuxedos and workwear, for contrast; some looks also are based on 30s-era inspirations.

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