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"By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile."
"One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait for the big correction and it never comes. The market just keeps climbing and climbing. It feeds on itself in frenzied fashion and propels prices considerably higher for six months or so, and sometimes longer."
"I don't like fashion. It's very heartless."
"I really believe that fashion, and dressing up, is a great way for guys to express and interact with their creativity."
"Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light"
"Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world."
"Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation."
"You live but once; you might as well be amusing."
"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."
"Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road."
"Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them."
"A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist."
"Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever"
"Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try."
"The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity."
"Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion."
"He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat."
"I like to go to places with my high-fashion things where there are a lot of cameras. So I can just go there and be like, 'Yep, yep, I'm looking so sick.' But in my regular life, I put on clothes that I can climb trees in."
"There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see."
"The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion."
