William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks."
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Shaving
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Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?"
Paul McCartney
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird."
Johnny Depp
Actor, Producer
"The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most."
Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving."
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"It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if he did, wanted to go back to bed pretty soon after. He wanted to drink earlier and earlier each day and didn't really see the point in shaving. I was generally pretty morbid."
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"I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff."
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"Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person."
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"One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans."
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"If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?"
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"When you had the fangs in, you wanted to be a little bit careful that you didn't actually pierce the jugular, kind of like my experience shaving Alan Rickman, which by the way neither of us want to do again, especially Alan."
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