"England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head."
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"The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does."
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"I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in."
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"Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are."
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"Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him."
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"It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if they do not suppress rage, but vent it constructively and use its energy peacefully but forcefully to cripple the operations of an oppressive society. Civil disobedience can utilize the militance wasted in riots to seize clothes or groceries many do not even want."
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"I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place."
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"Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body."
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"An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath."
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"Let's take our clothes off and party"
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"Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive."
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"A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it."
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"I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not."
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"You take off your clothes and you're in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you've concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be, however encrypted, is going to be found out, and that's what all the shyness is all about and what everybody fears."
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"Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs."
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"I have my own people that make my clothes, because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits."
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"I wear clothes and sell products and ideas."
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"I love clothes, so when I wear clothes, they're usually somebody's. You know, I'm not wearing Kmart."
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"My stylist has really great taste - Petra Flannery has really great taste. I mean, I am opinionated, and as time goes on, as I've gotten to see more dresses or more clothes, it's easier to say, 'I like that' or 'I don't like that,' but it's nothing I would ever, you know, design."
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"Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross."
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