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  A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

  Edith Head

  Fashion, Eyebrows, Dresses

  EDITH HEAD (1959). “The Dress Doctor”

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• We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.

  Anne Dudley

  Years, Ideas, Interesting

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• The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Unique, Issues, Fossils

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• Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.

  Joe Barton

  Stars, Hero, Sacrifice

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• It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

  Juliette Binoche

  Purpose

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• It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.

  Steve Carell

  Masters, Remakes, Recreation

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• I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Strong, Gigs, Music Business

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• I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Gay, People, Humour

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• The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

  Shane Claiborne

  God, Christian, Stars

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.197, Harper Collins

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• Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

  Alexander Wang

  Fashion, Clothes, People

  "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.

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• Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Divorce, Men

  "Head Over Heels for Manolo Blahnik" by Lisa Armstrong, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 23, 2010.

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• When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

  Erica Jong

  Kissing, Dust, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.

  Giambattista Valli

  Fashion, Silhouettes, Logos

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• Another form of prayer, called cataphatic, honors and reverences images and feelings and goes through them to God. This form of prayer also has an ancient and well-attested history in the world of religions. Any sort of prayer that highlights the mediation of creation can be called cataphatic. So, praying before icons or images of saints; the mediation of sacraments and sacramentals; prayer out in creation - all these are cataphatic forms of prayer

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Prayer, Feelings, Honor

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• Any fight that Floyd Mayweather is in is going to be entertaining, regardless. People come to see an icon, a living legend, a superstar.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Fighting, People, Floyd Mayweather

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation

  Nhat Hanh

  Spring, Healing, Museums

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2006). “The Sun My Heart”, p.1, Parallax Press

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• Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Home, School

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• I love the classic trucker jacket as an icon of rock 'n' roll and rebellion.

  Shepard Fairey

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Classic

  Source: www.complex.com

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• My ultimate style icon is Grace Jones.

  Nick Rhodes

  Grace, Style, Ultimate

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• I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Secret, Should, Celine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’m elated. I guess it’s better late than never. Welcome to the 21st century. It’s fantastic. I love Dior, and Rihanna is very much one of my style icons. I’m happy they got there in the end. I adore her style. She loves fashion, she’s unafraid. She uses her imagination, which is something we should all strive to do.

  Beverly Johnson

  Fashion, Imagination, Style

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• I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men.

  Dolly Parton

  Beautiful, Grandma, Aunt

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Working with Cate Blanchett, on and off the screen, has always been a highlight for me. She embodies the perfect combination of consummate actor and world-class fashion icon.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Class, Perfect

  "Sneak Peek! Giorgio Armani sketches of Cate Blanchett's wardrobe in Hanna" by Mary H.K. Choi, www.mtv.com. April 07, 2011.

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• The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Mother, Children, Animal

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons.

  John of Damascus

  Church, Pagan, Shows

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