A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

People that’s in power – the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally – they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

I’m easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

A lot of the reason my look is the way it is, is because it’s really easy to put on a sundress every night if I have to perform – or just wear jeans every day and a flannel or something.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

I like to look good, my friend.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

Elegance is refusal.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

I think my style is probably more of a classic look.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn’t believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.