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• George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

  Christopher Lasch

  Swag, Names, Speech

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• Damn it's a shame you're the mighty queen of vials, With a wide-eyed look and a rotten-toothed smile. Used to walk with a swagger, now you simply stagger From one spot on, to the next spot on, to the next spot on, to the next.

  Sadat X

  Queens, Rap, Hip Hop

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• But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger.

  Molly Crabapple

  Giving, Harder, Prove

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• Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine than would be suggested by all that male bravado. That was a front, and a misleading one at that; underneath the male swagger lay a passive acceptance of female dominance - a fact not always appreciated by outsiders.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Acceptance, Scotland, Dominance

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Espresso Tales”, p.31, Anchor

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• John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'.

  William Hone

  Swag, May, Has Beens

  'The Every-Day Book' (1826-27) vol. 2, pt. 1, col. 820

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• The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with regards to the ways in which young people look at resistance culture as a pattern that should be mimicked and admired.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Fashion, People, Culture

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• It's an amazing confidence boost when you have that swagger of knowing when you pull on the racetrack, all eyes are on you because they know you're the best.

  Denny Hamlin

  Eye, Knowing, Boost

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

  Emilio Estevez

  Media, People, Trying

  "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms" by Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I think you can tell the difference between "swagger" and real confidence immediately. You can smell it, like bad body spray versus nice cologne.

  Stephanie Beatriz

  Real, Nice, Thinking

  AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Men, Air

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.7

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• There is a certain swagger with vampires.

  Charles Michael Davis

  Vampire, Certain

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• Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

  Matthew Arnold

  Swag, Perfection, Culture

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• The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Fighting, Mma, Way

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• On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them. To disguise that, there's all this harsh, poop-centric, external swagger, full of nastiness. I'm a cloaking device.

  George Saunders

  People, Levels, Poop

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• You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.

  Jeff Goodell

  Dog, Iowa, Texas

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• A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.

  Jeremy Collier

  Blessing, Greatness, Men

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• When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what he was doing, because I was just faking it. What I want for my daughter is the exact opposite.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Daughter, Opposites, Want

  "Raped by Statute". www.salon.com. April 25, 2005.

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• I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Artist, Swag, Clothes

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• Success Recipe: 2 cups faith, 2 cups love, 1 cup hard work, 1 cup persistence, 1 tbsp vision and a dash of swagger.

  Jim Rohn

  Hard Work, Persistence, Vision

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• The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

  Jeremy Brett

  Heart, Men, Swag

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• From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Ice Cream, Swag, Eating

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• People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

  George Carey

  Jesus, Swag, People

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• The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

  Stephen Leacock

  Science, Swag, House

  'Literary Lapses' (1910) 'Boarding-House Geometry'

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• Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

  Louis Leakey

  Swag, Brides, Bases

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• Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Nature, Swag

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.32, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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