Nicole Richie Quotes

True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.

I think lingerie plays a big part in how you carry yourself.

When I pictured heroin, I pictured some crazy crackhead with no shoes under a bridge. You never think that is going to be you. And it never was me. I was never under a bridge, and I always had shoes.

I think that British girls have a very eclectic and unique style.

I wish everyone could hear the soundtrack for my life that I hear in my head.

The early bird might catch the worm, but I bet it also needs a ton of under eye concealer

You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it; it doesn't deserve you anyways.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

I believe there are only one or two people in the world with whom one can have a true connection. When you've been fortunate enough to marry one of those people, you are reluctant to settle for less. One can have lovers, those are easily found, but true love rarely strikes twice.

A fashion icon to me is somebody who has, the first person who struck you and introduced you to the world of fashion, and that person is my mom.

Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on.

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

People who try to be something they are not, the most attractive thing to me are people who are 100% authentically them. And I appreciate and actually always look for people that are different than me in friendships, because that helps me grow.

I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.

Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

I'm a Virgo and I'm really good at scheduling. And I really make it work. I get up 6.30 every day.

I'm a jeans and t-shirt type of girl.

I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal.

I never want to disappoint my parents, ever. They are people that I always look up to.

When you grow up in Bel Air and shop only in expensive boutiques on Rodeo and Robertson, you develop a kind of allergy to anything unpretty -clothes, cars... even people... you start thinking that if you hang around unattractive people, their homeliness can be contagious.

Always keep bobby pins on hand. It's amazing what you can do with those in a time crunch.

I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

Life is about doing the things that make you happy, not the things that please other people. If you can please other people, that's a plus, but as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're golden.

You have to be comfortable in what you're wearing.

I'm hugely inspired by music. I am a big listener of 60's and 70's classic rock. And i really just love the overall freedom of that time, of the late 60's and 70's. I love that you had so many different ways of expressing yourself, fashion was really one of them, the idea of clashing didn't exist, and people were using clothes as an opportunity to express who they were. That is inspiring to me - you could mix textiles, fabrics, you were 100% who you were, and that's where my main inspiration comes from.

I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.

Have a nice rest of your life.

I know that it's a big struggle with a lot of women to dress up - especially now women have been working - because it can be uncomfortable. So it was important to me with my role to make clothes that are slightly more dressed up but easy to wear.

I've always been someone who's extremely relaxed in my everyday life. I'm not the girl who can wear awful seven-inch heels all night. I keep it simple - I consider myself to be a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl who just accessorizes a lot.

I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would.

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

People who type with their iPhones on loud are barbarians and probably killers.

I woke up today knowing everything about everything.

You have to know that success is greater when it's shared.

I think it's extremely important to speak to the role of friendship in business. There's enough people talking about funding and capital. I want to talk about how important it is to surround yourself with people that have more experience than you, but also people that have different experience and interests than you.

I have to wear heels. There are some things that you just have to do.

Mark my words, my rap career [is] on the rise.

Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well.

I'm hugely inspired by the '60s and the '70s. I just love the music of that time and the overall freedom of that era. I love that the idea of clashing didn't really exist. You could mix prints on prints, you could mix fabrics and colors - and it was more about the way you felt than about the label and trends. That's something that I've always gravitated towards.

I try to focus less on the actual items and more on the way they make me feel. I like color around my face because it does something to me emotionally. I don't like to wear black because it brings me down.

I'm not going to change myself because I think it'll make somebody like me more. And in terms of being a business, I've found that when you're always in the people-pleasing mode, that's the easiest way to lose control of your brand's DNA. I want to sit across from someone who's authentically who they are, even if they're not my personal cup of tea. It's still more comforting than being across from someone who's making moves to please other people!

It's hard for me to describe my own style because I'm me.

I grew up in LA so I'm definitely a West coast girl. It's a totally different beach. It's a totally different ball game. I feel like on the East Coast being at the beach is something they don't get to do a lot. So you get this feeling where feel the energy of everybody just being so excited to be on vacation or in the sun. Here in LA I feel like we get that a little bit more so we don't appreciate it as much. But there you could really feel the energy.