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All Quotes Collection

"I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs."
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"I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not."
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"I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me."
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"Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had."
55

"I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made."
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"My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7."
51

"We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently."
51

"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality."
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"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."
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"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."
40

"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"
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"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
40

"Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement."
40

"There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality."
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"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?"
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"The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe."
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"As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul."
39

"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."
51

"Design is a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life."
42

"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."
54

"The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore."
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"Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important."
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"When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens."
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