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At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.
Vivienne Westwood
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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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I like to literally put women on a pedestal
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I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.
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Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
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The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, 'How can I ever have this experience again?' It was so mesmerizing, so complicated and so primordial I could not believe it.
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My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
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