Quotes About Contrast

I live a dual life. On the red carpet, it's complete glam. But at home, I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. Simple can be beautiful.

Hija mía, afortunadamente, o desafortunadamente, no todo el mundo puede alcanzar la felicidad, ya sea en la vida o en los cuentos. La dicha de unos produce la desdicha de los otros. Es triste, pero es así.

We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood!

Any hint of kindness had gone from his face. It was only hateful now, hard and hateful, and I wanted

Depending on how you looked at it, Darren was our Mick Jagger (designated swaggering extrovert) to Simon's Keith Richards (quietly virtuosic, blatantly self-destructive). Or else Darren had been Paul McCartney (chirpily commercial) and Simon had been John Lennon (moody, introspective, possessed of quasi-mystical insights).

Norstrom always used to say that I had two different brains working alternatively in my head: the well developed brain of a fool and the un- developed brain of a sort of genius.

High living and high thinking are poles apart.

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

hallar un equilibrio de polaridad, no el antagonismo de la dualidad.

The world is an abstract art. We see it as we want to see it. It is a garden of roses and it is also a forest of thorny bushes and poison oak.

Nothing is pleasant which is not spiced with variety.

The lion may eat straw like the ox, and the child put his head on the cockatrice' den; but will even then the light antelope be equal to the heavy plough? Will the gentle gazelle, even in those days, pull the slow wagon of ordinary occupation?

I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.

It's difficult to wear such high Louboutins and also freestyle rap.

Los Angeles gets a very bad rap, the perception, especially by us Brits, is 'Oh, it's so fake,' but it's the antithesis!

China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country - and, second, rapid urbanization.

That's the beauty of Mumbai. While some parts have grown rapidly, there are places like Churchgate that have retained their character.

You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

I love the grimiest rappers in the world. That's my favorite.

I like lyrical rappers and turn up rappers.

It's a big criticism of Greenaway films that they are far too interested in formalism and not enough interested in notions of emotional content. It's a criticism I can fully understand from a public that has been brought up by Hollywood movies that demand intense emotional rapport.

Everybody knows I wear a lot of black. When I pack, my whole bag is nothing but black, but sometimes, I have, like, a few pieces that are white, but it's rare.

Parisiennes rarely walk around wearing the giant diamonds that are de rigueur in certain New York neighborhoods.

You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.