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• I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

  Margaret Atwood

  Summer, Children, Fall

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• Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

  Joe Baca

  Jobs, Nails, Coffins

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• If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

  J. G. Ballard

  People, Office, Shells

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• Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.

  Mario Batali

  Stuff, Ingredients, Logic

  "An Introduction and Rallying Cry". www.esquire.com. August 24, 2011.

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• In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

  Robert Benchley

  Children, House, Curiosity

  Robert Benchley (1943). “Benchley beside himself”

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• I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Fashion, Hands, Feelings

  "The close-up". Interview with Imogen Fox, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2007.

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• I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.

  Bjork

  Play, Nerd, Mind

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• The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mom, America, Space

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• I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.

  Jeff Bridges

  Appreciate, Closets, One Thing

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• Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

  Bill Bryson

  Iowa, Community, Downtown

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• I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.

  Candace Bushnell

  Jeans, Sweaters, Pairs

  "Candace Bushnell: ‘I Actually Don’t Shop Very Much’" by Amy Odell, www.thecut.com. May 26, 2010.

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• It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Pistols, Strange, Influence

  Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2012). “Reminiscences”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

  John Jay Chapman

  Focus, Magazines, Ratios

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.

  Joan Collins

  Beautiful, Insecure, Wrinkles

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• On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

  Alice Cooper

  Real, Golf, Makeup

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

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• A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Dog, Assistants

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• I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

  Jewel

  Coffee, People, Singing

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• Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

  Jean Kerr

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”

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• I do have a stylist who helps me shop, because I don't have time to shop.

  Kesha

  Stylist, Helping, Help Me

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

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• If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

  Ben Kingsley

  Play, Fish Tanks, Three

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 02, 2001.

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• I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day.

  Mila Kunis

  Assistants

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Sick, Choices, Actors

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• I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.

  Amy Lee

  Unique, Stuff I Like, Design

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• If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Political, Civil War, Trying

  Quoted in Francis B. Carpenter, The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House (1869)

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• As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.

  David Lynch

  Father, Kids, House

  Interview With Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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