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• Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.

  Spike Milligan

  Order, Perfect, Kilts

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• I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

  Robert Plant

  Smile, Men, Thinking

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• We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

  Plutarch

  Life, Nature, Shoes

  "Life of Cato the Censor" by Plutarch, 1st century.

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• An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

  Norma Shearer

  Travel, Adventure, May

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• Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

  Robert Smith

  Makeup, Years, People

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• I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.

  Steven Spielberg

  Movie, Dad, Years

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

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• I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

  Amy Tan

  Love, Pain, Years

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.67, Penguin

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• Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Sunday, Men, Thinking

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• Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

  John Updike

  Baby, Art, Shoes

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• Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Clothes, Kind

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• Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Country, Hunting, Years

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.

  Rachel Zoe

  Tabloids, Designer, Week

  "Being Rachel Zoe". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. September 16, 2007.

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• he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Wall, Book, Dark

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

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• The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

  Mark Twain

  Views, Politics, Next

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski slopes, but young, sulky, adolescent mountains. They held secret ravines and merciless crevices. One yodel out of place would attract, not the jolly echo of a lonely goatherd, but fifty tons of express-delivery snow.

  Terry Pratchett

  Lonely, Echoes, Ice

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.342, Random House

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• Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Library, Principles

  "'Gedanken, Satiren, Fragmente' ('Thoughts, Satires, Fragments')". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1907.

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• Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Designer Clothes, Adults

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.219, Vintage

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• I believe that anything can be for men or women. I mean, I've worn a lace dress before!

  Marc Jacobs

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Money, Eye

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.702, Univ of California Press

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• A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Travel, Quality, Gears

  Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.260, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

  George H. W. Bush

  Pilots, Glory, Carrier

  George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think about what you're going to wear.

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, Suits, Kind

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• If I have an hour in a city, I go to vintage stores first because it's so much cooler to find a piece that is unique. I love the thought of some girl having worn it before and living her life in it.

  Helena Christensen

  Girl, Unique, Worn It

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

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• It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

  Joan Collins

  Pride, Ugly, Faults

  Joan Collins (2012). “The World According to Joan”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• And the truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.

  Joan Collins

  Taken, Skins, Care

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