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• Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Pay, Tailors

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• People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.

  Milton A. Lee

  Smile, Determination, Laughter

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• I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

  Cameron Diaz

  Jeans, Denim, Closets

  Moviehole Interview, moviehole.net. December 18, 2006.

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• I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

  Coretta Scott King

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness". Book by David Bender, p. 213, 2000.

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• A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

  Edith Head

  Fashion, Stars, Designer Clothes

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• It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

  Billy Idol

  Money, Matter, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Sex, Women, Memorable

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• Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour, and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.

  Francis Quarles

  Literature, Care, Labor

  "Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine; Contemplative; Practical; Moral; Ethical; Œconomical; Political".

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• When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

  Desiderius Erasmus' letter to Jacob Batt, April 12, 1500.

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• People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Fashion, Money

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• Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fashion, Epidemics, Old Fashion

  1906 The Doctor's Dilemma,'Preface on Doctors: Fashions and Epidemics'.

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• The soul of this man is his clothes.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Soul

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.147, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

  Clarence Darrow

  Motivational, Law, People

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• Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.

  James Laver

  Mean, Clothing Style, Frivolity

  James Laver (1969). “Modesty in Dress: An Inquiry Into the Fundamentals of Fashion”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Believe, People

  Interview with Mary Clarke, www.indexmagazine.com. 2001.

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• She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Powerful, Character, Intuition

  1869 Little Women, pt.2, ch.34.

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• Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you.

  Joan Rivers

  Fashion, Tailored Suits, Should

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• A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Witty, Long

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• I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

  Meryl Streep

  Fashion, Taken, Home

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• [Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Dresses, Sometimes

  Sports Illustrated, 1988.

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• When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Team, Men

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fashion, Heart, Views

  Virginia Woolf (1995). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

  Billy Connolly

  Being Happy, Running, Adventure

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• He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, People, House

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• There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

  Richard Pryor

  Beautiful, Nice, Struggle

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