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For my art GCSE, I did a screen print of the Queen's head that was basically an Andy Warhol rip-off, but I didn't realise.
Alexa Chung
Art
Queen
Andy
Andy Warhol
Rip-Off
Head
Print
Did
Screen
Realise
Warhol
Basically
My image has swallowed me up! I've given so much out to this projected version of myself, but now I have to live up to this character that I don't even associate half the time.
Alexa Chung
Time
Myself
Character
Me
Half
Live
Projected
Out
Given
Half The Time
Version
Up
Swallowed
Much
Even
Now
Image
Associate
People comment on my voice. They always ask me if I'm ill.
Alexa Chung
Me
People
Voice
Always
Comment
Ask
Ill
I love the '60s and sort of wish all design had stopped in 1967. That would be my dream. They were really just nailing it - everyone looked great - but then it started getting a bit slippery after that.
Alexa Chung
Love
Great
Wish
Design
Everyone
Bit
Slippery
Dream
Would
Would-Be
Had
Looked
Sort
Were
Getting
Just
Stopped
After
Then
Really
Started
I admire American women because they are really good at putting a look together that is sophisticated. As British girls, we lean toward being a bit more messy, a bit more undone, and maybe a little more eccentric.
Alexa Chung
Good
Together
Women
Girl
Undone
Bit
Admire
Eccentric
More
Putting
Toward
Sophisticated
Look
Lean
Because
Messy
American
Maybe
Being
Little
Really
American Women
British
I love Gap for affordable men's sweaters.
Alexa Chung
Love
Men
Affordable
Sweaters
Gap
Fashion's a huge part of my life, but I don't necessarily feel comfortable always talking about clothes on my personal social media.
Alexa Chung
Life
Fashion
Social Media
My Life
Clothes
About
Part
Feel
Talking
Comfortable
Always
Huge
Huge Part
Personal
Social
Media
Necessarily
When I used to work in television, a tip was rather than looking down the barrel of the camera and imagine people watching, which is terrifying, imagine your most discerning friend observing you, and imagine you're just talking to them.
Alexa Chung
Work
You
People
Looking
Down
Television
Rather
Observing
Most
Discerning
Talking
Terrifying
Camera
Friend
Than
Just
Tip
Which
Them
Your
Used
Barrel
Watching
Imagine
A roll-neck and some flat shoes is about as good as it gets.
Alexa Chung
Good
Shoes
Some
About
Gets
Flat
If I know something's expected of me, I won't wear it or do it. It just seems boring.
Alexa Chung
Me
Wear
Boring
Seems
Something
Know
Expected
Just
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
Alexander Chase
Government
Time
Aid
Machine
Run
Factory
Without
Begins
Scrap
Human
Whether
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Alexander Chase
Death
Travel
Illusion
Air
Air Travel
Find
Immortality
Fact
Poised
Between
Exhilarating
Hang
Lovers
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
Alexander Chase
Rude
Immediately
Taken
Always
Refusal
Believed
Soft
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Alexander Chase
Generalizations
False
Including
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Alexander Chase
Great
Man
Great Man
Wit
Pass
To remain young one must change.
Alexander Chase
Change
Young
Must
Remain
The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
Alexander Cockburn
Soldier
Weapon
Advocate
Assassin
Dagger
Sword
Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.
Alexander Cockburn
Environmental
You
Citizen
Wear
Badge
Suspicion
Automatically
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.
Alexander Cockburn
People
Remember
Become
Be Careful
About
Part
Most
Malaysia
Thailand
Burma
Cannot
Whether
Should
Lanka
Now
Careful
Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.
Alexander Cockburn
You
Business
Political
Try
Will
Later
Threat
Someone
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Mostly
Usual
Pose
By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.
Alexander Cockburn
Black
Party
National
Panther
Hoover
Security
Threat
Had
Edgar
Concluded
Replaced
National Security
Communist
Communist Party
In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.
Alexander Cockburn
Black
Attempt
Crush
Frequent
Arrest
Engineered
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
Alexander Herzen
Obedience
Corruption
Political
Organization
Will
Say
Latter
All Religions
Religions
Morality
More
Voluntary
Makes
Always
Pernicious
Been
Than
Any
Former
Use
Based
Why
Violence
Slavery
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
Alexander Herzen
Blame
World
Fault
Ours
Neither
Born
Misfortune
No-One
Nor
Being
Dying
Whole
Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
Alexander Herzen
Possible
Would
Triumphant
More
Parliament
Houses
Spot
Still
Than
Done
While
Stand
English
Forward
March
Two
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
Alexander Herzen
Life
Daily
Science
Wealth
Way
Mingling
Puny
Casts
Through
Know
Without
How
Fish
Left
Which
Pond
Cuts
Muddy
Daily Life
Right
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