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• No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.

  Peter Kay

  Coat Hangers, Metals, Knows

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• I should be European. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

  J. B. Smoove

  Long, Looks, Should

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• [F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

  Georges Bataille

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.31, U of Minnesota Press

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• One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it's time to be on my way. No, it's the snickering that gets me down.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Way, Evening, Chance

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.31, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.

  Tess Gallagher

  Hug, Buttons, Connections

  Tess Gallagher (1984). “Willingly: Poems”

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• Corsets do look so pretty. Once I watched it, I was like, "Well, they do look nicer than the way I do normally," but they're really uncomfortable. You start to realize why women would pass out. We had the real ones, and they were just awful. At one point, I was like, "I think that's my spleen that this is digging into." So, if I had a nightgown, that was always really comfy. I had a few coats that I thought were pretty cool.

  Kristen Connolly

  Real, Thinking, Digging

  Source: collider.com

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• In life the turn coat (traitor) is never trustworthy by either side. The one that he betrayed will hate him and the other that benefited from his treachery will fear him. After all what is going to stop the "turn coat" from betraying him as well.

  Artur Pawlowski

  Hate, Betrayed, Sides

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• Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cutting, Men, University Professors

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.167, Knopf

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• The polishedness and the sophistication were what I was interested in. I mean, give me a polka dot, a floral print, a pleated dress, a big fur coat, that was always my language, and it wasn't very "in" when I was starting out, so I had a difficult time in the beginning.

  Jason Wu

  Mean, Giving, Dresses

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

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• What helped me get the part was that I turned it down. When I read the script, Venus was just a black guy who came in wearing a big coat and a hat and making jive talk. I'd been up for so many of those! I'd had enough of caricatures, what white writers conceive blacks to be. I told the producer I wasn't interested in doing anything like that for three or four years. He said that it was just a pilot, that Venus would be given a human dimension and would be quiet off-the-air. I wanted that input. I thought that side was as important as the comic side. For 'WKRP,' too much of either would be bad.

  Tim Reid

  Years, White, Air

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• When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas.

  Noel Gallagher

  Girl, Winning, Class

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• I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Reality, Men, Cards

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• Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

  Dolly Parton

  Family, Color, Together

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• We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Children, Political, Hats

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• Coats are my favorite thing, and it's always cold in England. I'm comfortable spending a bit of money if you know you're going to be wearing it 10 years later.

  Max Irons

  Years, Favorites Things, England

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• The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Clouds, People

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• I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed.

  Tony Vincent

  Christian, Heart, Born Again

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• There is something magical about that green coat. I mean that sincerely. It's a very special week, and being able to wear that green jacket. It's made my whole career. It's special.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Mean, Careers, Special

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• O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.

  John Burroughs

  Hue, Azure, Vests

  John Burroughs (1909). “Bird Stories from Burroughs: Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs”

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• The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

  Edwin Arnold

  Gold, Royal, Dare

  Sir Edwin Arnold (1856). “Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems”, p.235

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• The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

  Charles Kuralt

  Song, Winter, Singing

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• Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?

  Mary Oliver

  Perfect, Boots, Half

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Kings, Responsibility, Clothes

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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• Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

  Daniel Dennett

  Life, Paint, Planets

  "Tech gurus drum up ideas for a better world / Annual Technology Entertainment Design conference pushes leading thinkers, doers to solve big challenges" by Tom Abate, www.sfgate.com. February 26, 2006.

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• Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Funny, Money, Giving

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