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• All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

  Athol Fugard

  Boxing, Finding Yourself, Shadow

  "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

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• Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

  Hilarie Burton

  Gardening, Nails, Dirt

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hilarie Burton", www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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• About 10 minutes [into the dinner] my sister texted me and said, "Maria, I just wanted to let you know that you're on TV live. You're front and center." I thought, 'Oh God, I'm right behind Donald Trump and in the camera shot. After that I stopped moving. I just sat there. It was funny. I was delighted that people noticed my white gloves. It was a white tie dinner, for the dais you had to be in white tie. If I can't channel my best Sophia Loren glamour for a white tie affair, when can I? I thought it was an excellent opportunity to wear the white gloves.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Moving, Opportunity, White

  Source: wwd.com

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• Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Glasses, Shoes, Over You

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• I use bath gloves in the shower every day. People often comment on my skin and I just tell them that I use bath gloves.

  Meagan Good

  People, Skins, Use

  "‘Think Like A Man’ Star Meagan Good Dishes on Beauty Musts". Interview with Kimberly Walker, www.ebony.com. April 20, 2012.

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• Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.

  Park Dietz

  Blood, Hands, Want

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• War is capitalism with the gloves off.

  Tom Stoppard

  War, Capitalism

  'Travesties' (1975) act 1

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• Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.

  Margaret Atwood

  Eye, Knowing, Broken

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Dec 23, 2013

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• On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.

  Anthony Trollope

  Travel, Flirting, Land

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “John Caldigate: Trollope's Works”, p.37, 谷月社

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• To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it - made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love You, First Love, Love Is

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• The only good thing I could say about Dr. Vegas was that it was fun working with Amy Adams. I like to feel I picked somebody great as my leading lady and was borne out. Oh, and I learned how to snap on a medical glove very easily.

  Rob Lowe

  Fun, Vegas, Amy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.

  Stephen Colbert

  Character, Boxing, Feelings

  "The man in the irony mask". Interview with Seth Mnookin, www.vanityfair.com. October, 2007.

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• Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Fate, Boxing, Unseen

  P. G. Wodehouse, Donald R. Bensen (1985). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.

  Evan Davis

  Love, Silly, School

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find myself like others, having the heart of a Steiglitz with hands that sometimes seem impeded by boxing gloves. What is exasperating is that one can feel closer to managing the skills of photography than most other arts, and yet be a long hop, skip and delusional way from it.

  Norman Corwin

  Photography, Art, Distance

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• Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting to grope in the mouse-turd dust, art is the equivalent of athlete's foot, at best an exquisite itch, at worst an excuse to stop walking. On the emotional side, it is either masturbation with a hockey glove or a night beneath the sliding moon that shames Eros.

  Harold Town

  Art, Athlete, Hockey

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• I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

  Rachel Nichols

  Yellow, Cleaning, Dishes

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• I love shooting guns. I would never shoot an animal or hunt, but I probably would be a very good hit woman. It's hand-in-glove for me.

  Rose McGowan

  Animal, Gun, Hands

  Source: collider.com

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• One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheism, Filth, New Testament

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• I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

  Taylor Swift

  White, Priorities, Mail

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• I want to know: How does a space suit on Mars work? Show me how it is pressurized, and how it is cooled. What's the glove design? None of that stuff can be bought off the rack. It does not exist. You can't just go to SpaceMart and buy those things.

  Chris Hadfield

  Space, Design, Doe

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• I'm a pitcher, so the glove is my only accessory. The hitters get to have all the fun. They have batting helmets, the actual bats, gloves, elbow guards - all this cool stuff to wear. And all I get is a glove.

  C. J. Wilson

  Fun, Bats, Accessories

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.

  Andre Breton

  Memories, Love You, Hands

  "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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• There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Fall, Heart

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• If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine that our society can be handled with gloves or long poles. One must make one's self a part of it. If virtue won't answer our purpose, we must use vice, or our opponents will put us out of office, and this was as true in Washington's day as it is now, and always will be.

  Henry Adams

  Self, Long, Office

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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