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• An Airstream is a lot like a first love: you are lured by her charm, seduced by her beauty, and once bitten, you are forever chasing after her mystique.

  Bruce Littlefield

  Love You, First Love, Forever

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• The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists. It is the joke that Freudian thought played on living women, twisting the memory of the feminists into the man-eating phantom of the feminine mystique, shriveling the very wish to be more than just a wife and mother.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Memories, Real

  betty friedan (1963). “the year's most controversial bestseller the feminine mystique”

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• A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined.

  Paul Blair

  Sports, Baseball, New York

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• No matter what album I’ve ever made or ever will work on, it’s me trying to achieve this feeling I had listening to music when I was 8 years old. Just being mesmerized by the production and the mystique and the stories.

  Jason Lytle

  Years, Feelings, Listening

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• I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

  John Steinbeck

  Thinking, Texas, Mind

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.125, Penguin

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• Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

  Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

  Intelligent, Stories, Debt

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• The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

  Betty Friedan

  Art, Sex, Commitment

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• Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Imagination, Political

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.41, Canongate Books

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• I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Powerful, Sibling, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think you can realise that a lot of people in bands - well - I guess you kinda wanna... There's a lot less mystique in playing in a rock band today, than in the 60's or 70's. I don't think there's any bands that I can think of, that have this rock god myth that like Led Zeppelin had.

  Chris Baio

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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• I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Two, India And Pakistan, Lineage

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Insane, Directors, Different

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• That's kind of the mystique If you [post your outfit] on Instagram all of the time, I'm going to see a bunch of people walking around looking like Shump.

  Iman Shumpert

  People, Instagram, Kind

  Source: wwd.com

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• A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore - the revelations really hurt their mystique. The last ten years, they were getting the Zero Dark Thirty treatment - they're the heroes. The surveillance revelations bring them back to Big Brother kind of narratives, and they don't like that at all.

  Edward Snowden

  Hurt, Brother, Zero

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• I loved [Real Madrid]. It was a real experience, playing with a great team. One of the first questions I'm often asked is 'What was Madrid like?' It's got that mystique about it. It's a magical place and a magical team, and everything about it is great.

  Michael Owen

  Real, Team, Firsts

  Source: www.insidefutbol.com

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• I think the macho mystique was far more a guiding principle in our Dad's generation than ours, the 'strong silent type' was much more common.

  James Redford

  Strong, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It was the era that I later analyzed, the "feminine mystique" era, [when] "career woman" was a dirty word. And so I didn't want a career anymore. [But] I had to do something. So I started freelancing for women's magazines.

  Betty Friedan

  Dirty, Careers, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Walk around. If you are invisible, the mystique of the President's office may perpetuate inaccurate impressions about you or the President, to his detriment. After all, you may not be as bad as they're saying.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Office, President, May

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Details Of Life, Wife

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• People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm probably the realest person you'll ever meet.

  Nick Cannon

  Thinking, People, Persons

  "How to Date a Diva". Interview with Andrew Daniels, www.menshealth.com. November 4, 2011.

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• The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

  James Fisher

  Leadership, Confidence, Loyalty

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• I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

  Alistair Maclean

  Art, Novelists, Storyteller

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• There is no mystique to Tai Chi Chuan. What is difficult is the perseverance. It took me ten years to discover my chi, but thirty years to learn how to use it. Once you see the benefit, you won't want to stop.

  Ma Yueliang

  Perseverance, Art, Years

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• There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer there's no difference between selling airlines seats and chocolate bars.

  Mike Batt

  Differences, Romance, Chocolate

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• Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Common

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.66, Routledge

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