I'm trying to not follow fashion. I don't even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years.

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I've had to make friends with an awful lot of bad fashion choices.

Robbie Williams

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I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

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I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

Ruth Negga

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I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.

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You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.

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I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.

Robbie Williams

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My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

Ruth Negga

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Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts

Henry Adams

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I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams

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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

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You know when you're a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There's no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play.

Ruth Negga

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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams

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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Henry Adams

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People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Ruth Negga

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My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.

Ruth Negga

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I was moved by the 'Lovings' story because of my own background as a mixed-race person.

Ruth Negga

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I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.

Ruth Negga

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I trained, went to college, trained, and got a job. Then got another job. When I wasn't working I worked at a bar, then got another job.

Ruth Negga

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The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Ron Paul

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When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

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Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

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Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Jackson Pollock

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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Jackson Pollock

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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Jackson Pollock

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Jackson Pollock

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I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

Ruth Negga

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Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

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Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

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One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

Jacques Chirac

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As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

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I was an attention seeker, always in trouble.

Ruth Negga

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When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

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I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

Jacques Derrida

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Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories - it's all part of my toolbox as an actor.

Ruth Negga

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I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

Ruth Negga

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I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

Jacques Derrida

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We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.

Ruth Negga

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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

Jacques Derrida

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People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

Ruth Negga

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The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

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These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

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Who ever said that one was born just once?

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I'm trying to not follow fashion. I don't even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years.

Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams

I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

Robbie Williams

I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

Ruth Negga

I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.

Ruth Negga

You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.

Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams

My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

Ruth Negga

Ruth Negga

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts

Henry Adams

I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

Ruth Negga

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Henry Adams

You know when you're a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There's no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play.

Ruth Negga

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Henry Adams

People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Ruth Negga

My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.

Ruth Negga

I was moved by the 'Lovings' story because of my own background as a mixed-race person.

Ruth Negga

I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.

Ruth Negga

I trained, went to college, trained, and got a job. Then got another job. When I wasn't working I worked at a bar, then got another job.

Ruth Negga

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Ron Paul

Ron Paul

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

Ron Paul

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

Ron Paul

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Jackson Pollock

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Jackson Pollock

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Jackson Pollock

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

Ruth Negga

Jacques Chirac

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Jacques Chirac

One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

Jacques Chirac

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

Jacques Chirac

I was an attention seeker, always in trouble.

Ruth Negga

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

Jacques Chirac

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Jacques Derrida

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

Jacques Derrida

Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories - it's all part of my toolbox as an actor.