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• I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Boat, Pessimist

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Christmas with Holly”, p.101, Macmillan

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• And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who double checked with Macey) is the single-sexiest thing a guy can do.

  Ally Carter

  Guy, Liz, Shoulders

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• What do you want?" Jace shrugged. "Clothes mostly, some weapons." Sebastion shook his head. "Too dangerous. We need to get in and out fast. Only emergency items." "My favourite jacket is an emergency item," Jace said. It was so much like hearing him talk to Alec, to any of his friends. "Much like myself, it is both snuggly and fashionable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Clothes, Needs, Want

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• My advice to you is be boring, square, asshole parents... When I have kids, the most recent CD I will own - Phil Collins, No Jacket Required, and I'll rave about it. 'Do you like rock 'n' roll? 'Cause this is rockin' good stuff, kid.'

  Patton Oswalt

  Kids, Squares, Rocks

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• I'm happiest on set because I'm not myself. I'm someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself... all those doubts.

  Jean Dujardin

  Mustache, Doubt, Dinner

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

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• Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green Brooks Brothers-style sport jacket and make the winner of the Masters slip on something in, say, black leather with plenty of metal studs.

  Bruce McCall

  Sports, Brother, Golf

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• If I’m at a party where I’m not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying good-bye.

  Mindy Kaling

  Party, Bye, Pockets

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.218, Three Rivers Press

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• One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.

  Lily Donaldson

  Black, Dresses, Dinner

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• I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone’s dressed down. So actually putting on a jacket is the anti-­Establishment stance.

  Thom Browne

  Jeans, T Shirt, Shirts

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• I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Topshop, Urban, Apparel

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• When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

  George Ayittey

  Uganda, Presidential, Relief

  "African Debt". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. June 12, 2005.

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• My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Blue, Leather Jackets, Jeans

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• I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Thug, Leather Jackets

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• She could smell the boy spice beneath the thrift-store aroma of his jacket, and the rubbing and the smell began to work to soften her -- like butter before you add sugar, in the first steps of making something sweet. It was her first experience of how bodies could meld together, how breath could slip naturally into rhythm. It was hypnotic. Heady. And she wanted more.

  Laini Taylor

  Sweet, Boys, Smell

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• A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

  Ronan Farrow

  New York, Party, Simple

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• I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

  Melissa Marr

  Girl, School, Leather Jackets

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• Once, I had to clip a jacket back to take a picture, and after they were done I forgot to remove the clip until someone noticed.

  Shay Mitchell

  Done, Clip, Remove

  "Power Shopping: 'pretty Little Liars' Shay Mitchell" by Lindsay Flans, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 13, 2012.

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• The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It's such a type. And that's what I was, without knowing it.

  Michael Ian Black

  Crazy, Leather Jackets, Safety Pins

  "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• And if I was going to go there – the only person you can really compare Batman to, of those characters, would be Iron Man, another rich guy who has the ability to make fantastic toys – so if you want to take Batman and Iron Man and put them in a battle, that’s an interesting battle. But if you want to take Christian Bale and Robert Downey Jr. and put them in a UFC fighting cage, Christian Bale will – to quote Full Metal Jacket – tear Robert Downey Jr.’s head off and sh-t down his neck.

  Matthew Modine

  Christian, Character, Fighting

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• When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Team, Ocean, Attachment

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• I'm going to die wearing the same things that I love wearing. I'm going to wear my jeans. I'm going to wear wifebeaters. I'm going to wear my leather jacket. I don't care. As long as I can look good in it, and feel comfortable in it, then I'm going to do it.

  Cher

  Leather Jackets, Jeans, Long

  "Cher Q&A: On her new tour, 'sloppy' Miley, and leather jackets". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

  J. Anthony Lukas

  Buttons, Tweed, Graduates

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• I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

  Warren Buffett

  Zero, Believe, Years

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• My denim jacket had 'I love GNR' and 'I love AC/DC' written all over it, but I always came back to swing.

  Paloma Faith

  Swings, Denim, Over It

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• Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.

  Mona Simpson

  Writing, White, Ties

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