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• I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.

  Anna Sui

  Successful, Luxury, Clothes

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• Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?" "Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?" "You're not going to go mad," she said firmly. "Of course I'm going to go mad, mother. I'm rather looking forward to it.

  David Eddings

  Mother, Mad, Looking Forward

  David Eddings (2010). “King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)”, p.246, Random House

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• It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

  Marguerite Duras

  Women, Ideas, Neglect

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.51, Grove Press

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• Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick, and big hair is artifice, fake, and a distraction. But I knew even as a teenager that my femininity was more than just adornments; they were extensions of me, enabling me to express myself and my identity. My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose.

  Janet Mock

  Inspiring, Teenager, Makeup

  Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.

  Mary Quant

  Fashion, Alive, Today

  Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”

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• It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

  Quentin Crisp

  Would Be, England, Constitution

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.

  Alan Weisman

  Energy, Too Much, Craving

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• The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

  Susan Sontag

  Serious, Relation, Camps

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• I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

  Betty Friedan

  Satisfied, Barricades, Reserves

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• I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Keys, Magic, Language

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1251, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.

  Michele Bachmann

  Light, Issues, Matter

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• World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

  Gore Vidal

  Events, World, Individual

  Gore Vidal (1999). “The Essential Gore Vidal”, Random House Incorporated

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• In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times.

  Paul Madonna

  Hard Times, Left, Seems

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• Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

  Laura Joh Rowland

  Mind, Body, Dull

  Laura Joh Rowland (2007). “The Concubine's Tattoo”, p.229, Macmillan

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• I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships. I've got a couple close relationships with friends, a close relationship with my family, and a close relationship with my guitar. I'll know if the right person comes along, and whatever then - cool - but it's not something I'm seeking out at the moment.

  Taylor Momsen

  Couple, Guitar, Stuff

  www.seventeen.com. January 27, 2010.

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• The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.

  Gene Kelly

  Light, Musical, Looks

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• There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Calling, Shallow

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following the Equator”, p.72, Trajectory Inc

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• But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker... It would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property.

  Jim DeMint

  Moving, Years, Environmental

  "Senator Jim DeMint on Offshore Drilling". "Your World With Neil Cavuto", www.foxnews.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and passive - because for us, there has been no act more bold and daring than embracing our own femininity. In a world that is awash in antifeminine sentiment, we understand that embracing and empowering femininity can potentially be one of the most transformative and revolutionary acts imaginable.

  Julia Serano

  Empowering, World, Revolutionary

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• The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Divorce, People, Reason

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• A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Moving, Men

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.5021, e-artnow

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• I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Editing, Phases

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• Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Serious Person, Persons

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• In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.

  Philippe Halsman

  Humorous, Hands, Essence

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• Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

  Jane Austen

  Dresses, Literature, Solicitude

  Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.1560, Wildside Press LLC

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