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“If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It's looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.”

Ifs America Culture My Own Too Much Style Appreciate Designer Good Design Stylish Tacky

Author:Tom Ford

“My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.”

Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825

“God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."”

“Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.”

Trying Self My Own Views Behinds Too Much Regard Shoulders Twists Self-importance

Book:Braided Lives

Source: Braided Lives

“I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.”

Littles Mother My Own Too Much Theory Understood Doctors Disorder Darling Mother Love Mental Disorder

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."”

Thinking Knows Trying Littles Made My Own Brain Too Much Research Daughter Hypocrite Wasted Time Rotting Mario

Author:Ernest Cline

“I never really got on my own case about my own acting. I know a lot of other people have, and probably very justifiably. But I don't worry about stuff like that too much.”

People Knows Stuff My Own Acting Cases Worry Too Much

Author:Troy Donahue

“Maybe I think too much for my own good.”

Thinking My Own Too Much

Author:Paul Simon

“I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.”

Humor Funny My Own Too Much Cutting Hair Sick Coming Out Barbers

Author:Robert Frost

“When you're young, you're very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to myself, don't think too much, just get on and do it.”

Ifs Thinking Past Young My Own Too Much If I Could Insecure

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting if it is satisfactory, and satisfaction diminishes tension and clears the mind for attention and learning.”

Ifs Mind Self Sex My Own Views Attention Too Much Satisfaction Sexuality Lovely Tension Diminish

Author:Paul Goodman

“Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.”

Littles My Own Careers Too Much Conclusion Looking Back

Author:Guy Kawasaki