Flea Markets Quotes - Page 2

• I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum.

  Jack Pierson

  Book, Museums, Fleas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Glasses, Fleas, Thread

  Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.

  Roz Chast

  Cute, Thinking, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don't work one look in particular, but it's usually retro - I'm a flea-market freak. And detailed - I'm always very done, even at the gym.

  Debi Mazar

  Jeans, Looks, Done

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• I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market.

  Theo Rossi

  Vintage, Rose, Antiques

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• Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Baby, Judging, Guilt

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• Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.

  Gail Collins

  Crazy, Gun, Thinking

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 3, 2013.

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• The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.

  Allan Bloom

  Country, Jobs, Eye

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• It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy guns.

  Janet Reno

  Gun, Criminals, Events

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• Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fleas, Settling

  On the relative merits of two minor poets, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 192 (1783)

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• I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.

  Alec Baldwin

  Beautiful, Men, Eight

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• I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there.

  April Bowlby

  Sunday, Interesting, Santa

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

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• The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

  John Donne

  Doe, Fleas, Ethics

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

  Hamish Bowles

  New York, Fleas, Found

  "A life in Vogue: Hamish Bowles". Interview with Wendy Donahue, www.chicagotribune.com. May 16, 2014.

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• I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

  Ransom Riggs

  Growing Up, Kids, Florida

  Ransom Riggs (2012). “Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  Nate Berkus

  Home, Unique, Special You

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• I adore vintage clothes. When I go on the road doing auditions for So You Think You Can Dance, I always research the cities we're traveling to so I know where all the best vintage stores are. There are several stores and flea markets I love here in LA. Shareen is amazing with the best edit in town! Golyester is great. I really enjoy the Rose Bowl market. A word of warning: wear layers, comfortable shoes, be prepared to hunt, and fuel yourself with a bucket of cappuccino! Enjoy!

  Cat Deeley

  Thinking, Vintage, Cities

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• There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market. They weren't the greatest guitar but they would be cool to still have them. Other than that, not as a professional.

  John Petrucci

  Guitar, Would Be, Fleas

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Fleas, Related

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets and sold gifts to make ends meet. Eventually, through hard work, they opened six gift stores in shopping malls. My parents achieved the American dream; they went from being poor to a home and gave my brother and me an amazing education. I wanted to serve the country that gave so much to my family.

  Ted Lieu

  Dream, Country, Brother

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