Vivienne Westwood quotes - page 4

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion. (Vivienne Westwood)
What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers. View quote
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Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes. View quote
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Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes. View quote
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Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply. View quote
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It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world. View quote
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I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick. View quote
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The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system. View quote
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It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion. View quote
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Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture. View quote
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We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great. (Vivienne Westwood)
The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything. View quote
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Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests. View quote
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We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also. View quote
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We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning. View quote
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Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70. View quote
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Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world. View quote
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My beauty secret is absolutely no sun. View quote
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We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part. View quote
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I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world. View quote
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Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world. (Vivienne Westwood)
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. View quote
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The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse. View quote
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I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well – it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive. View quote
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Get rid of those terrible jeans that everybody else wears. And wear something different for a change, so you don't just look like a clone. View quote
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