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• I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Photography, Lying, Thinking

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• The latest report is that Osama bin Laden has shaved his beard, is wearing Western clothes and has had plastic surgery. Isn't that amazing? The guy has made just two videos and he's already gone Hollywood.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Guy, Hollywood

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• We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.

  Tina Weymouth

  Safety Pins, Safety, Pins

  "Coming at rock from odd angles" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2003.

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• The best part about being a superstar is that you can wear the most outrageous of clothes and they say 'it's in!'

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Superstar, Outrageous

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• Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week.

  Calvin Miller

  Friday, Morning, Sunday

  Calvin Miller (2009). “The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict”, p.87, InterVarsity Press

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• For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Change, Vanity, Requirements

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• Clothes make the body both mysterious and historical.

  Mason Cooley

  Historical, Body, Mysterious

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• Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.

  David St. John

  Prayer, Ambition, Broken

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• Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Want, Gods Will

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Rights, Wealth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.470, Modern Library

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• There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Horse, Apology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.268, Graphic Arts Books

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• My philosophy has always been to help women and men feel comfortable and confident through the clothes they wear.

  Giorgio Armani

  Confidence, Fashion, Philosophy

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• And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.

  Paul the Apostle

  Hair, Gold, Pearls

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• I'm not impulsive at all - except about buying clothes. That's my biggest weakness.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Weakness, Buying, Impulsive

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• You can take my cars or my house, just don't mess with my clothes.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Car, House, Mess

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• O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Queens, Long, Tree

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• Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.

  Henry Adams

  Order, Ego, Purpose

  Henry Adams (1999). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1920, OUP Oxford

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• If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They shouldbe a comfort and a protection.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Fashion, Night, Comfort

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• I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.

  Clarence Darrow

  Sleep, Differences, Pay

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• A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Light, Mind

  "Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

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• I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Reflection, Years, Air

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.128, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Coats, Next

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• Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.

  Josh Billings

  Form, Intellect, Dandy

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• There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, People, Burlesque

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.465, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Struggle, Animal, Numbers

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