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Sarah Unknown
Clothes

"The beauty of my body is not measured by the size of the clothes it can fit into, but by the stories that it tells. I have a belly and hips that say, "We grew a child in here," and breasts that say, "We nourished life." My hands, with bitten nails and a writer's callus, say, "We create amazing things."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
Clothes

"There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
Clothes

"Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has no clothes on How can it be spoken."

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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
Clothes

"I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate."

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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
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"When I come home I actually take off all my clothes, and I wear no clothes until I leave. I eat naked. I do everything completely naked."

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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
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"I don't do shows. I don't have reviews. I'm not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them."

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Tracy Kidder Author
Clothes

"The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma."

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Tyson Chandler Basketball Player
Clothes

"I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Clothes

"I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that."

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