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• I love Ralph Lauren, just as a designer. I still think he could make some better sizes with his clothes, but I like the idea of his classic American style.

  Queen Latifah

  Thinking, Ideas, Clothes

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• To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.

  Queen Latifah

  Be Who You Are, Matter, Torches

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• The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

  Gary Lineker

  Team, Successful, Player

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• The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

  Norman Mailer

  Events, Literature, Horror

  A Fire on the Moon (1970) pt. 1, ch. 2

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• I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

  Miriam Makeba

  Crush, Nature, Racism

  "In praise of ... Miriam Makeba", www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

  Michelle Malkin

  Hate, Pet, Hills

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• One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

  David Mamet

  Country, Adventure, Cities

  "Hands Off Our Guns" by David Mamet, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 26, 2013.

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• When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.

  Hilary Mantel

  Clothes, Should Have, States

  Hilary Mantel (2004). “Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir”, p.197, Macmillan

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• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Self, Vision

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• I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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

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• My wigs are ever changing in height, width, color, size. They make me feel happy. Wearing them makes me feel like I can be a different person every day and that is kind of exciting.

  Nicki Minaj

  Happy, Rapper, Color

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• By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

  Issey Miyake

  Fashion, Way

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• I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, School, Boys

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• Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

  Steven Morrissey

  Birthday, Shoes, Live Your Life

  "The cradle snatchers". "Melody Maker" Newspaper, September 3, 1983.

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• I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.

  Dave Mustaine

  Stupid, Guitar, Play

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• The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  New York, Law, Everyday

  "The Physicist". Interview with Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 2005.

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• I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

  Judd Nelson

  Country, Hurt, Cities

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

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• Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

  Rachel Nichols

  Country, People, Interesting

  "Comic-Con 2011 Exclusive: Rachel Nichols Talks CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Comic-Con, Girl Fights, and the other Rachel Nichols". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. July 23, 2011.

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• My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

  Grover Norquist

  Cutting, Government, Years

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• The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Gdp, Focus

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• Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Pregnancy, Young Parents

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.118, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Way, Easy

  "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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• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Patriotic, Pride

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Michelle Obama

  Health, Kids, Commitment

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• There's all body types, but there's just one size.

  Conor Oberst

  Body Types, Just One, Body

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