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When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.
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I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens.
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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.
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I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.
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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 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.
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There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.
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I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.
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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.
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What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.
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If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.
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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.
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I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.
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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.
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I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
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Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.
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If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
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I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?
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I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
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My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
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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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More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
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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.
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I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
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I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
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What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.
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People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
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Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.
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Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.
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The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
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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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