Window Dressing Quotes

• People make things happen. All the rest is just window dressing

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Make Things Happen, Dressings

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• Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

  Mike Tyson

  Money, Failure, Boxing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

  Roger Caras

  Inspirational, Pain, Fear

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• Legal reform has significant dangers: changing only the window-dressing of harmful systems but leaving the violence of the systems in tact, failing to provide actual relief for those facing the worst conditions, and legitimizing or expanding systems of harm.

  Dean Spade

  Leaving, Reform, Relief

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.

  Candace Bushnell

  Skills, Barns, Pottery

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• Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, White, Political

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.

  Seneca the Younger

  Practice, Choices, Kind

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• The White House comes out and says it's going to do a major study of the effects on preschool-age children using Ritalin, Prozac and other drugs. I know in advance what the study's going to say. The results are in before they even start. They're going to do a window-dressing control while praising the overall need for the drugs. In the end they're going to try to peddle more drugs than before while making us think they're clamping down; that's my guess.

  Michael Savage

  Children, Thinking, White

  Source: whale.to

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• But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described... Those of us in the Congress of the United States are window dressing.

  Virgil Goode

  Running, Historical, Groups

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• These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Book

  "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.

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