Quotes About Contrast

Tra la vita - bocche di carpe che deglutiscono - e la morte - vegetali in lenta putrefazione - tu che cosa scegli? Che cosa ti dà meno voglia di vomitare?

L'époque où nous vivons regorge de ces idiots intelligents dont la société fait regretter les braves imbéciles du temps jadis.

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.

Wealth and compassion are opposites.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

Moving from Dubai to the Congo was one of the best things that happened to me, it's a shock to be confronted by the contrast in wealth and culture, and it's hard, but I loved it and it influenced me a lot.

If I were to generalize a bit, I would say that the ultra rich in Asia live on a scale that far surpasses the wealthy in the U.S. or Europe.

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.

One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values.

I like bold colors but usually wear black.

By the end of his life, one has a far easier time picturing Hugh Hefner buying his girlfriend a comfy pair of slippers than one of the satin corsets the Bunnies used to wear.

I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.

Day-to-day, I don't wear make-up, my hair's not done, and I'm in ripped jeans and a Bonds tee. But doing red carpets is just part of work.

I'd describe my look as girly-edgy. I like black nail polish and eyeliner, but I'll wear them with pink shoes.

I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!

I wear a lot of blacks and greys, then put in splashes of colours, but I like wearing strong shades like reds and neons, too.

I do California casual a little bit better than really small European cut, tight apparel But I can rock some Gucci when I need to. I say this as I'm wearing Adidas sweatpants and a ten-year-old Chrome Hearts T-shirt.

I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.

I'm a bit grungy - I love wearing boots. But I also love putting on a beautiful white dress and jewels. I have those two alter-egos.

I do have ambition - I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine, but it's not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and travelling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise my acting is going to be false.