Dressed Up Quotes - Page 6

• In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk: Dug up remains from the garbage heap of history and dressed up to look like a tradition.

  Erik Naggum

  People, Community, Looks

  Re: Irish road-signs are now metric (Usenet article), groups.google.com. February 21, 2005.

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• We love getting dressed up - and this is a great excuse for a party.

  Nicola Roberts

  Party, Excuse, Getting Dressed

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• Official opposition to overall economic planning and planning controls has been characterized in a recent editorial as "Papa knows best." But it is precisely because Papa does not know best that I believe that Government should not presume to tell any businessman or industrialist what he should or should not do, far less what he may or not do; and no matter how it may be dressed up that is what planning is.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Believe, Government, May

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 133), March 30, 1962.

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• Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.

  Bill Murray

  Years, People, Half

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• I feel much more comfortable dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. I'm wearing very fancy clothes today. It's Valentino. But the film ["Devil Wears Prada"] did not make me change my style. If anything, it has made me appreciate the people who do this every morning in a serious way, get dressed up and really put together that look. I mean, wow. It's amazing.

  Meryl Streep

  Morning, Mean, Jeans

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When the Founders thought of democracy, they saw democracy in the political sphere - a sphere strictly limited by the Constitution's well-defined and enumerated powers given the federal government. Substituting democratic decision making for what should be private decision making is nothing less than tyranny dressed up.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Political, Decision

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• The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Block, School, Secret

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• I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.

  Alysia Reiner

  Daughter, News, Taste

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Everybody understands that acting is a really difficult job. It's hard work. You've got to get dressed up, you've got to hang around with beautiful women. It's difficult. It's a problem.

  Bruce Willis

  Beautiful, Jobs, Hard Work

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• we are dealing with a return to what might be a far more normal relationship between the West and Russia. Russia is what it is that we see. It's not dressed up in its birthday costume. It is what it is. It regards its national interests as important enough to fight for. And the difference on the whole Ukraine situation is that the Russians are prepared to fight for their position on Ukraine, and the West is not.

  Marvin Kalb

  Fighting, Russia, Ukraine

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you . . . I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Eyebrows, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I watched L'eclisse [1962] with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Changed my world. What a glamorous and modern film. This is what a genius is - the thing of a genius. The dresses, the tiny heels, the Cardin look, the boys dressed up as Italian gigolos - it was divine, very modern. [Michelangelo] Antonioni, I loved and I realized: how modern.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Italian, Boys, World

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• It was so embarrassing, everytime I see it, I blush. Imagine if you saw yourselves like that. It's one thing to get dressed up and do the movie star thing, but I mean, it's my job to be outside of that and it's not like I'm on the outside when they're all watching me. [About the famous car wash scene from One Night at McCool's]

  Liv Tyler

  Movie, Jobs, Stars

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• People are like, "Why are you all dressed up? Did you dress up just for me?" I'm like "No, I dressed up because I'm an adult and I felt like putting on my suit." But I love it. Tom Ford and Ralph Lauren are my two heroes of clothing designers.

  Paul Feig

  Hero, Two, People

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2011.

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• I don't want to have my children have to get dressed up to go out to say good morning and deserve to live among some other people. I want to be able to be free and take for granted that my neighbors like me and I like them.

  Ruby Dee

  Morning, Children, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

  Halle Berry

  Girl, Fashion, Body

  "Hallelujah". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 8, 2009.

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• I don't spend my life getting dressed! I have to put clothes on during the day; I don't get dressed up at all when I'm working. I'll wear jeans, or something very simple.

  Iris Apfel

  Simple, Jeans, Clothes

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The most telling one was recently on a plane. This guy very dressed up and formal - the watch, the shoes, the cufflinks, the whole nine yards - he came at me, and I thought I was going to get nailed. But he literally came up to me and just gave me a hug and said, "Thank you for introducing me to a subject that I didn't know anything about." In those moments it always clicks for me what we're doing here.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Shoes, Guy, Hug

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

  Stendhal

  Crush, Equality, Support

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• But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
  With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
  people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.

  Ogden Nash

  Purple, People, Soldier

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• I'm a firm believe that a man looks his best in a suit and I feel like in the late 40's people just dressed up to do everything.

  Anthony Mackie

  Believe, Men, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Did you hear this? They say now Osama bin Laden and his buddy Mullah Omar have left Afghanistan dressed as women. They dressed up as women and went across the border into Pakistan. I think they're going to make a movie about it. They're going to call it 'Some like it Jihad.'

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Borders, Pakistan

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• A famous anecdote concerning Cuvier involves the tale of his visitation from the devil—only it was not the devil but one of his students dressed up with horns on his head and shoes shaped like cloven hooves. This frightening apparition burst into Cuvier's bedroom when he was fast asleep and claimed:
  'Wake up thou man of catastrophes. I am the Devil. I have come to devour you!'
  Cuvier studied the apparition carefully and critically said,
  'I doubt whether you can. You have horns and hooves. You eat only plants.

  Georges Cuvier

  Men, Shoes, Doubt

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• I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that.

  Jake Epstein

  Halloween, Reading, Men

  "From Degrassi High To Manhattan: Jake Epstein Dons The Spidey Suit". Interview with Louis Peitzman, www.buzzfeed.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Diane Coffee is just the part of me that has always been a performer. It's something that's always been there and Diane Coffee is just the name I've given her for this project. But I was always the one who would raid mom's closet and get all dressed up and put on crazy weird shows in the living room or film little movies.

  Shaun Fleming

  Mom, Crazy, Coffee

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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