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“You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.”

Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.”

Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.”

Tim Gunn

Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.”

Tim Gunn

Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.”

Tim Gunn

Source: Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style

“Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.”

Tim Gunn

Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“I don't know if people have gotten ruder or if my tolerance level has declined.”

Tim Gunn

“I was called a fool when I was chair of fashion at Parsons and I invited PETA to speak to students. The industry went crazy. I said: "Wait a minute. The International Fur Trade Commission is coming here. I have a responsibility to bring another point of view, let the students decide." I would say if you're going to use fur, you have a responsibility to know its origins. … There's no reason to kill animals for fur. Wearing fur is like wearing a big sign reading, "I'm in favor of inflicting cruelty and pain on animals as a fashion statement." Unspeakable torture is inflicted on dogs, cats, bunnies, raccoons, foxes, minks and myriad trapped, helpless creatures in the name of fashion — yes, dogs and cats.”

Tim Gunn

"Tim Gunn and me" http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2009/11/tim-gunn-and-me.html by Patt Morrison, interview with the Los Angeles Times (23 November 2009).

“Stella’s work has helped to redefine and recalibrate our thinking. … Higher-end brands have said they couldn’t exist without fur. Stella proves, of course you can.”

Tim Gunn

At a party held at Stella McCartney’s 14th Street boutique in New York; quoted in "New York Fashion Week: Tim Gunn, Taraji Henson make the case against animal cruelty" http://www.nola.com/fashion/index.ssf/2011/02/new_york_fashion_week_tim_gunn.html, NOLA.com (10 February 2011).