Daphne Guinness Quotes

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• If I think about it too much, I can't get dressed.
• But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.
• Part of being a conscious human being, is having an intention. And if you put an intention into whatever you do, it’s definitely going to…
• We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare…
• If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.
• I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something…
• Time is infinite, but we are not infinite in it.
• As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour
• When I think my hair needs a bit of help, I just glue another bit onto my head.
• Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!'
• I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art,
• Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag,
• I don't do event dressing, because every day is an event.
• I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have…
• I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts…
• I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context.…
• I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.
• Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.
• We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness…
• Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.

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