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"I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?"

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Edward de Bono Psychologist
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"You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them."

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Zell Miller Politician
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"Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?"

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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things."

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Anne Stuart Author
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"She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan."

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"I have a thing about underwear. I have to wear thongs. Since I was a showgirl in Las Vegas, and I was wearing G-strings all the time, I got this thing where I cannot stand to have on regular underwear. It drives me out of my mind."

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
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"When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat."

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Hank Green Entrepreneur, Author, YouTuber
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"So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants."

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