Daphne Guinness Quotes

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• I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

  Daphne Guinness

  Creativity, Blood, Brain

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• 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 and precious beauty.

  Daphne Guinness

  Support, Needs, World

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• As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

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  Clothes, Needs, World

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• Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

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  Skins, Bananas, Life Is

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• I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

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  Art, Pieces, Jewelry

  "The Real Daphne Guinness" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 11, 2011.

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• I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

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  Philosophy, Practice, Two

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• I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

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  Children, Thinking, Imagination

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• 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 extremely magical about armour.

  Daphne Guinness

  Price Tag, Ideas, Needs

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• I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

  Daphne Guinness

  Jobs, Real, Ideas

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• Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

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  Mean, Sunglasses, Dark Glasses

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• Time is infinite, but we are not infinite in it.

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  Infinite

  "Exclusive Photo: Daphne Guinness Poses for 'Haute Living'" by Farah Krentcil, www.elle.com. November 02, 2012.

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• I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, Im kind of astonished because I think, This is completely normal. This is just how I am, its how Ive always been.

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  Thinking, Who I Am, People

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• I don't do event dressing, because every day is an event.

  Daphne Guinness

  Events, Dressings

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• I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.

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  Thinking, Mad, Gone

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• Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag.

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  Handbags, Certain, Paid

  "The Real Daphne Guinness" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 11, 2011.

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• 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 be more satisfying in the end

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  Intention, Conscious, Ends

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• When I think my hair needs a bit of help, I just glue another bit onto my head.

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  Thinking, Hair, Glue

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• I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

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  Fashion, Approach, Fashion Accessory

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• 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. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

  Daphne Guinness

  Taken, Upset, Use

  Interview With Peter Brant II, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 23, 2011.

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• Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.

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  Dresses, Different, Each Day

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• If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.

  Daphne Guinness

  Ifs, I Can

  "Precarious Beauty" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2011.

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• I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

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  Clothings, Regard, Disposable

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• I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.

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  Book, Gossip, Tvs

  Interview with Peter Brant II, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 23, 2011.

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• My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.

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  Broken, Mathematics, Weak

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.

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  Taken, Journey, Years

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