Shops Quotes - Page 11

• I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

  Macklemore

  Week, Thrift, Five

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

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• Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

  Paul McCartney

  Junk, Yards, Window

  Song: Junk, Album: McCartney

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• We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.

  Mitch McConnell

  Jobs, Doors, Years

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• The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can spend a thousand dollars on a jacket in a shop. And if you saw those two jackets walking down the street, you probably wouldn't know which was which.

  Helen Mirren

  Two, Clothes, Insane

  "Helen Mirren: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 2011.

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• Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

  Joni Mitchell

  Dream, People, September 11

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• I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.

  Jo Nesbo

  Coffee, Writing, Airports

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• I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Home, Woods, Terrible

  "PJ O'Rourke - the rightwinger it's OK for lefties to like". Interview with Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.

  Apolo Ohno

  Yellow, Clothes, Gold

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• I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.

  Gary Oldman

  Kids, Boys, Soul

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• Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Home, Motherhood

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• I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother - and as somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Beautiful, Mother, Opportunity

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• I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by their religion, so I was going to these halfway education-slash-Christian schools that were like pop-up shop-style education.

  Katy Perry

  Christian, Believe, School

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• I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you've got two kids, to start a coffee shop.

  Tom Peters

  Coffee, Passion, Kids

  "The Peters Principles: An Interview with Tom Peters". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1, 1997.

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• I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.

  John Podhoretz

  Running, Deputies, My Own

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• The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

  Terry Pratchett

  Goodbye, Grandchildren, Thinking

  "Discworld's Terry Pratchett On Death And Deciding". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 11, 2011.

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• I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Bars, Mars

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• But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

  Vivienne Westwood

  People, Marketing, Technique

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• I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Clothes, People, Littles

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• The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Want, London

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• If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, New York, Moving

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• I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Friends

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• We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

  will.i.am

  Writing, Technology, Banking

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

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• When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Music, Thinking, People

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• Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it's probably OK to keep showing the same pizza shop as your No. 1 choice. I don't see any big political consequences out of that.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Choices, Political, Online

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• When you like what you like, it makes it easy for your husband to shop for you!

  Niecy Nash

  Husband, You Like It, Easy

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