Tailored Quotes

• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Truth

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• Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.

  Jay-Z

  Rocks, Tailored Suits, Used

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• I like to dress up in a tailored suit from time to time, and there's a tailor I go to in Naples who's fantastic. But if I told anyone his name, I'd have to kill them.

  Hugh Jackman

  Names, Suits, Dresses

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• A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.

  Vincent Piazza

  Tailored Suits, Dignity, Certain

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• Tailored jackets with jeans is a great look for all ages. Dress up with a heel and pretty shirt, or just wear a smart T-shirt under the jacket.

  Twiggy

  Smart, Jeans, Age

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• When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.

  Clayton Christensen

  Self Esteem, Opportunity, Years

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• It should be said that we are presently, and I believe unfairly, constrained from directly promoting cigarettes to the youth market...Realistically, if our Company is to survive and prosper, over the long term, we must get our share of the youth market. In my opinion, this will require new brands tailored to the youth market.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Believe, Long, Opinion

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• For me it's all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces.

  Miranda Kerr

  Simple, Feelings, Investing

  "The Style Q&A: Miranda Kerr". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 9, 2012.

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• My will for you is not harsh or unpleasant. It is gentle and perfectly tailored to your unique needs. Do not fear my direction. I am your heart's happiest guide.

  Julia Cameron

  Heart, Unique, Needs

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• All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because I've been skating for so long. My waist is very small, but my legs are just huge. Most really nice suit makers are Italian, and usually they make suit pants for Italian men. I'm like, 'Those Italians must have pretty skinny legs.'

  Apolo Ohno

  Nice, Italian, Men

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• Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is no enemy! Etch out a future of your own design Well tailored to your needs Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive ... ...the future is roses! Roses!

  Thomas Dolby

  Dream, Future, Heart

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• I'm really not tailored for responsibility.

  Rick James

  Responsibility

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• When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Fashion, Moving, Two

  "Ozwald Boateng: does my head look big in this?". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.

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• If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.

  Andre Benjamin

  Football, Looks, Jersey

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• Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time.

  Michelle Alexander

  African American, Crow, Needs

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.21, The New Press

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• Over the years, I've learned that you can have fun with the fabrics and other elements, but if it's not tailored right, you'll blow it.

  James Marsden

  Fun, Blow, Years

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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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• The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not serve us, we serve it. If we have trouble striding toward it, we assume the matter is with us, and not the ideal.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Hands, Order, Doe

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• Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper or a beaten-up leather jacket or even just a cotton T-shirt.

  Tamara Mellon

  Smart, Men, Leather Jackets

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• It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.

  L'Wren Scott

  Dream, Bags, Tricks

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

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• Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.

  Paul Feig

  Men, Add, Wells

  "How a Hollywood Man Should Dress for The Oscars". www.esquire.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Marvin Gaye was the ultimate ladies' man and a big part of that was the way he dressed. If you're having trouble getting ladies, step your suit game up and see the difference. Walk into a bar in a tailored suit and I guarantee every girl will check you out.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Girl, Men, Games

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• I love tailcoats; I love blazers. I love tailored things.

  Shenae Grimes

  Blazers

  "Shenae Grimes Shares Style and Beauty Secrets with Seventeen!". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 20, 2009.

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• I've got quite a curvy shape so I try to wear stuff that's tailored.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Trying, Shapes, Stuff

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• Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Psychological, Domain

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