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"It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores."
"I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls."
"I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face."
"I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well."
"I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'"
"I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs."
"Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear."
"There are only so many skaters like Brian Orser. Nobody is going to just step into his shoes."
"I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot."
"I know there's always going to be feedback no matter what the subject. I am shocked by somebody commenting on my shoes or my clothes. Everyone has an opinion, everyone is logging about everything and has an opinion. So I can't possibly pay attention to that."
"Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes."
"I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale."
"Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that."
"The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations."
"I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us."
"The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes."
"Humanity is just a virus with shoes."
"...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."
"She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan."
"I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game."
