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• Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?" "Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?" "You're not going to go mad," she said firmly. "Of course I'm going to go mad, mother. I'm rather looking forward to it.

  David Eddings

  Mother, Mad, Looking Forward

  David Eddings (2010). “King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)”, p.246, Random House

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• I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.

  Anna Sui

  Successful, Luxury, Clothes

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• World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

  Gore Vidal

  Events, World, Individual

  Gore Vidal (1999). “The Essential Gore Vidal”, Random House Incorporated

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• I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

  Betty Friedan

  Satisfied, Barricades, Reserves

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• Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick, and big hair is artifice, fake, and a distraction. But I knew even as a teenager that my femininity was more than just adornments; they were extensions of me, enabling me to express myself and my identity. My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose.

  Janet Mock

  Inspiring, Teenager, Makeup

  Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.

  Mary Quant

  Fashion, Alive, Today

  Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”

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• It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

  Quentin Crisp

  Would Be, England, Constitution

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

  Susan Sontag

  Serious, Relation, Camps

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• I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Keys, Magic, Language

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1251, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

  Marguerite Duras

  Women, Ideas, Neglect

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.51, Grove Press

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• Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.

  Alan Weisman

  Energy, Too Much, Craving

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• I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.

  Michele Bachmann

  Light, Issues, Matter

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• In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times.

  Paul Madonna

  Hard Times, Left, Seems

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• Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

  Laura Joh Rowland

  Mind, Body, Dull

  Laura Joh Rowland (2007). “The Concubine's Tattoo”, p.229, Macmillan

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• Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

  Antonio Banderas

  Honesty, Thinking, Careers

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

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• So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.

  Mike Huckabee

  Real, Home, Issues

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• The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Divorce, People, Reason

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• Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and passive - because for us, there has been no act more bold and daring than embracing our own femininity. In a world that is awash in antifeminine sentiment, we understand that embracing and empowering femininity can potentially be one of the most transformative and revolutionary acts imaginable.

  Julia Serano

  Empowering, World, Revolutionary

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• They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

  Imelda Marcos

  Looks, Faces, Settling

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

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• Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Serious Person, Persons

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• And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Farewell, Leisure

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• Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

  Virginia Woolf

  Ifs

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.603, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Calling, Shallow

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following the Equator”, p.72, Trajectory Inc

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• Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.

  Truman Capote

  Love, Moving, Fall

  Truman Capote (2012). “Summer Crossing: A Novel”, p.113, Modern Library

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

  George Santayana

  Change, Children, Persistence

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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