Dasha Zhukova Quotes

I'm interested in institutions, particularly in the way institutions close ranks. They have hierarchies and their own ethics.

We don't make the rules. We just play by them.

I think new regulations create a reset for all teams.

You can't get along in society without an identity.

One of my goals in life is to watch political correctness shrivel up and die (as it should be for any true conservative).

I think it's funny when stereotypes happen.

The majority of the film industry is, like, obsessed with a ridiculous gender binary and keeping with this stupid social binary. Like, who cares?

I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.

We all have to wear social masks in our daily lives to get by.

I always say 'The Bachelor' doesn't create and drive social issues. We're a microcosm of what's happening in the world.

I find it very difficult to see the boundary between womenswear and menswear. It's bizarre the ways in which society reacts; they find it difficult to comprehend seeing parts of the body on a man. I think it's fascinating.

It's interesting that people think that pants are masculine. Pants are pants.

Making something the norm is the only way of not making it a talking point.

The things that are considered to be respectable have their roots in unrespectable things.

Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom.

Why does everyone need to have a label?

I'm not out here trying putting on an act like I'm crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They're the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they're told in front of the camera.

Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.

I don't believe in the institution of marriage.

Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.

I want to break down the wall of, you know, you have to put on a jacket and tie, and you have to act a certain way, and you have to know how to order the right kind of wine. All these things have suddenly been built up around jazz and the way it's presented.

Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible.

People are always put in a box or slot.

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.