Le Corbusier
Architect, Designer, Urban Planner
"The "styles" are a lie."
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Style
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Edward Said
Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
"Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient."
The Notorious B.I.G.
Rapper, songwriter
"Climb the ladder to success escalator style"
Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz Singer
"Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel."
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave."
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"Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life."
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"Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always."
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"You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile."
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"Remind your self. Nobody constructed like you, you style your self."
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"Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal."
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"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy."
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"It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together."
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"The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man."
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"Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual"
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"The only healthy communication style is assertive communication."
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"Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style."
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"Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style."
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"Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going."
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"One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style"
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"My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg."
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"I'm still the best Keith Moon-style drummer in the world."
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"A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience."
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"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things."
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"My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny."
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"Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it."
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