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More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
Vivienne Westwood
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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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Tintwistle
Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
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When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
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I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.
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How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.
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I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
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The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.
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We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.
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I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
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All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
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If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.
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