Pairs Quotes - Page 16

• A few years back, when my style was "punk grandma", I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more "1980s substitute teacher gone wild."

  Beth Ditto

  Teacher, Grandma, Years

  "The friendliest big little city in America" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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• As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.

  Jenny Eclair

  Jeans, Smoking, Looks

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• After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

  Jenny Eclair

  Dad, Drama, School

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• I love a great pair of jeans and a nice blouse.

  Allyson Felix

  Nice, Jeans, Blouses

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• It's tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I'll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I'll be like, 'Oh great!'; even though it stresses me out that I don't have enough room to put them, I can't throw them away.

  Will Ferrell

  Nice, Stress, Shoes

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• Oh yeah, I'm literally walking through my house now looking down and there are maybe, like, 15 pairs on the floor. For real. Real talk. It's just simplicity. They're something I wear every day. Before I got a deal with them, I was wearing some type of Vans all the time. I would just order them by the box, like, 10 at a time.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Real, Order, Simplicity

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• There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery’s version of the Barack Obama “Hope” poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama’s Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists’ Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

  Thomas Frank

  Depressing, Portraits, Lobbyists

  "Obama and the K Street Set" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2009.

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• I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I'm still that naughty girl who likes a slice of cheesecake on my day off.

  Jessie J

  Girl, Naughty, Days Off

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

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• For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

  Hugh Jackman

  Hands, Shoes, Tailored Suits

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• I'm a big shoe guy, too. I have far too many pairs. Whenever there's a new style out, I'll text my stylist: 'Can we get a pair of those?'

  Joe Jonas

  Shoes, Guy, Style

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• There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

  Andrea Jung

  Friday, Monday, Morning

  "Avon CEO Andrea Jung's advice: Reinvent yourself". ABC NEWS interview, abcnews.go.com. June 14, 2009.

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• I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers.

  Steve Kanaly

  Horse, Real, Cowboy

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• I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Sexy, Nice, Jeans

  "The Beyoncé Experience". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 13, 2007.

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• I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.'

  Hugh Laurie

  New York, House, Guy

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• Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Library, Principles

  "'Gedanken, Satiren, Fragmente' ('Thoughts, Satires, Fragments')". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1907.

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• I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be.

  Christian Louboutin

  Pain, Shoes, Ideas

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• I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.

  Christian Louboutin

  Shoes, Long, Obsession

  "Christian Louboutin tells Cinderella story to Jeanne Beker". Interview with Jeanne Beker, www.thestar.com. July 19, 2012.

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• It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.

  Theresa May

  Party, Eye, Years

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

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• I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

  Joni Mitchell

  Home, Oxen, People

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• I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sports, Running, Independent

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• I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There's something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that's really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette.

  Tyler Perry

  Curves, Shoes, Feet

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• If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Nice, Jeans, Feelings

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• I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Running, Shoes, Balance

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• In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

  Tom Robbins

  Wall, Writing, Clouds

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• With everybody having a Facebook and a Twitter, I feel like regular people consider themselves stars. It's a live, real-time upload of every time we buy a pair of socks, the most telling sign that we're losing our politeness. When you know everything about somebody, you can talk to them any way you please.

  Jeff Ross

  Stars, Real, People

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