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For me, I analyze the modern girl, the girl that I'm friends with, and they're empowered: They pay their own bills. They have their own style. They wear clothes - the clothes don't wear them.

Analyze Bills Clothes Empowered
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All I do all day is think of ideas and implement them. That's an industry, you know. I'm trying to make art on a commercial scale.

All Day Art Commercial Day
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People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.

Able Art Concepts Exciting
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Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.

Artistic Culture Earth Evolving
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I don't have to choose between high fashion or streetwear. My brand reminds me that it doesn't have to fit in a box. It can just be in a gray area.

Area Between Box Brand
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I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.

Always Had Idea Ladder
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I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

Always Been Breaking Come
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If you look at why people become wack as they get older, it's because they stop doing the things they did that were formative to their work. You can't mentally stay still. You can't not challenge yourself.

Because Become Challenge Did
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The amount of random conversations that lead to culture-shifting ideas is insane.

Amount Conversations Ideas Insane
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My general premise is not about selling clothes. If that's your end goal, then all of a sudden everything looks the same, you know - you start designing by numbers.

About Clothes Designing End
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My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.

Angst Belong Bit Feeling
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From a very young age, as a teenager, I was into hip-hop and skateboarding and all those things that were akin to a kid in the '90s. All those things are what resulted in clothes.

Age Clothes Hip-Hop Kid
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My goal was to tell a dialogue between high fashion and streetwear. So, the name Off-White, in my mind, is between black and white. So, that middle ground is a mixture between both genres of fashion.

Between Black Black And White Both
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I always joke that, at any given time, I'm supposed to be at two other places.
Always Any Any Given Time Given
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My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context.

Been Before Concept Context
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I'm constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I'm traveling to.

Cities Constantly Friends Inspired
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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

Above Any Anything Anything Else
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When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

Actor Any Certain Certain Way
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I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.

Accent Anything Been Character
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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Accent Accents Accessible Adjust
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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.

Always Be Different Behind Dialogue
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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.

Down Hang Husband I Love
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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.

Actor Behind I Can Job
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Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

Championship Championships Down Goal
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I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

Because Characters Feel I Think
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In life, you need a best man, not a yes man. Don’t assume that a friend who often disagrees with you is a frenemy.

Life Best man Yes man Friend
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Dear Parent, The mirror reflects what you cast on it. Before calling your child ‘useless idiot’, know that that useless idiot is a reflection of the useful idiot that gave birth to him/her. Even in your anger, never speak ill of your children

Mirror Useless Idiot Children
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Wike is a man. He is a man who refuses to be a governor that can’t govern.

Man Refuse Governor Govern
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Dull Found Lately Read
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn’t get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you must do something about it.

Focus Future Optimist Right
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Everybody now wants to discover universal laws which will explain the structure and behavior of the nucleus of the atom. But actually our knowledge of the elementary particles that make up the nucleus is tiny. The situation calls for more modesty. We should first try to discover more about these elementary particles and about their laws. Then it will be the time for the major synthesis of what we really know, and the formulation of the universal law.

Universe Science Atom Knowledge
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I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

Science Modern Simple
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While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.

While The Majority My
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America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'

America Haunted Apparition Steeped
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A classic man is a distinguished man. He cares about taste and his craft. He's all about the simple model that I live by - eat, drink, be swanky, and have fun getting the job done.

Classic Man Distinguished Man
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I myself have been scrutinized by militaries police, but I know officers who actually handle themselves in a certain way that makes me feel safe.

I Myself Have Been
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Ever since the decision of Robin Thicke and Pharrell, we believe that it was important to make sure that we are safe. When that Robin Thicke verdict came out, we realized that the game had changed in music.

Ever Since Decision Robin
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I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean something to someone means a lot to me.

Could Feel Life Like
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I feel that confidence in women - especially young girls of color - but women, in general, is so important. It is so important for us to arm ourselves and become powerful at a very young age.

Age Arm Become Color
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If I have to be at work at five A.M., I will get up at three and work out. I run. I do weights. I'm very toned. I'm like every other woman. I'd love to be 10 pounds or 20 pounds lighter. If I'm not, I'm OK with that, too. I'm good as long as I'm healthy.

Every Five Get Good
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I think many women are successful in their professional lives - they are making the money and all that - but in their personal lives are a complete mess, because they haven't paid any attention to it, because they spent all of their time being successful.

Any Attention Because Being
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I've always felt like I was an actor for hire. And almost apologetic for being a woman of color, trying to stifle that voice. But I don't feel that way in Shondaland. I feel like I am accepted into a world where I'm a part of the narrative - I'm a part of it.

Accepted Actor Almost Always
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I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it's a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.

Always Asked Feel I Think
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If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.

About Because Comedian Death
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You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

About Actress Black Coming
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I know that love is real when it's not convenient, when it's not selfish, when it's challenged, sometimes even if it's not reciprocated.

Challenged Convenient Even Know
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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Acquire Come Depart Down
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I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.

Able Dash Field ILove
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.

Abroad Barack Barack Obama Common
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If there's a 'Cruel Summer' then there's got to be a 'Cruel Winter,' right? That's all I'm saying.
Cruel Got Right Saying
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