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“We do all the first samples here and all the production in the garment center, within these few blocks... I love the process.”

“... I am a New York designer and the things are made in New York...”

“They don't need me to be another Establishment designer. That's not what I'm good at...”

“I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl?”

“I had a really typical, suburban, middle-class upbringing. The only thing out of the ordinary was being one of the few Chinese families in town.”

“When I am designing, I make a selection of music that will be the inspiration behind the whole collection... I will be blasting that music—it becomes a journey I take in my brain to transfer that sound to the clothing.”

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"He was very happy but very nervous .. .In short, I think I spent my time well, thirty five minutes is not long, but if I had stopped sooner it would have been better, because my model ended up by losi…"

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art1841–1919

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"Initially, I think it was a desperate need for validation. Once I became more comfortable in my own skin, I discovered I enjoyed performance for its own sake, and the challenges that come from creatin…"

— Larry Brantley

Entertainment1966

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"If you look at the history of the United States, which has a long history of democracy, you would see they committed the same mistakes over and over until they finally learned from them. The same, I t…"

— Francis Escudero

Politics1969

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"Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else."

— Malcolm X

Social Activism1925–1965

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