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• Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French word for life-jacket.

  Julian Barnes

  Uplifting, Art, Self Confidence

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• I love getting amazing jackets, because you can wear your pajamas underneath and everyone's like, 'Oh fabulous jacket', and I'm like, 'You should see what's underneath'.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Fabulous, Pajamas, Like You

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• At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.

  Chris Burden

  Feet, Long, Rifles

  Chris Burden, Anne Ayres, Paul Schimmel, Newport Harbor Art Museum (1988). “Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey”

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• One of the most important things is to figure out what your look is — I don't wear this black suit-white shirt combination all the time to try and be iconic — but because I'm most comfortable in this. Cary Grant never turned up in a pink jacket and hot pants and I don't feel the need to experiment when I know I like dressing this way.

  Tom Ford

  White, Black, Important

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• So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame-'That's so 60's!'-the entire decade having been mocked so effectively that social protest seems outlandish and 'so last century,' just another style excess like love beads and Nehru jackets. No, rebellion won't pose a problem for this social order.

  Laura Kipnis

  Love Is, Vocabulary, Order

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• The words of the Lord are found in the scriptures and the teachings of the apostles and prophets. They provide us counsel and direction that, when followed, will act like a spiritual life jacket and will help us know how to hold on with both hands.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Spiritual, Teaching, Hands

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• Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.

  Thom Browne

  Simple, Men, Cities

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• Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he's got on. And when you know everything's gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff.

  Julian Casablancas

  Shoes, Guy, Stuff

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• I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

  Nate Berkus

  Leather Jackets, Jeans, Ties

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• One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!

  George Gissing

  Rain, Doors, Shining

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Differences, People

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Channeling my inner bohemian in a maxi print skirt and textured denim jacket.

  Lubov Azria

  Denim, Skirts, Bohemian

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• Start the week with a striking indigo skirt paired with an embroidered suede moto jacket.

  Lubov Azria

  Skirts, Week, Indigo

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• Channel a bohemian state of mind with an effortless dress paired with a must have embroidered moto jacket.

  Lubov Azria

  Mind, Dresses, Bohemian

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• Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Simple, Sweaters, Clothes

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• The next time you drop my jacket, I'll drop you!

  Vince McMahon

  Wwe, Next, Next Time

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• I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

  Warren Buffett

  Zero, Believe, Years

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• A woman's place is in the home. Why should she go out and take away a workingman's pay instead of staying home and stealing out of his jacket like a good wife.

  Sam Levenson

  Sex, Home, Wife

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• I'm going to die wearing the same things that I love wearing. I'm going to wear my jeans. I'm going to wear wifebeaters. I'm going to wear my leather jacket. I don't care. As long as I can look good in it, and feel comfortable in it, then I'm going to do it.

  Cher

  Leather Jackets, Jeans, Long

  "Cher Q&A: On her new tour, 'sloppy' Miley, and leather jackets". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

  J. Anthony Lukas

  Buttons, Tweed, Graduates

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• My denim jacket had 'I love GNR' and 'I love AC/DC' written all over it, but I always came back to swing.

  Paloma Faith

  Swings, Denim, Over It

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• Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.

  Mona Simpson

  Writing, White, Ties

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• Winning the green jacket is great - I can pay for all the diapers I'm going to have to get.

  Bubba Watson

  Winning, Green, Diapers

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• It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.

  Bubba Watson

  Dream, Florida, Green

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• I like the way corduroys feel. I like the sort of jean aspect of corduroys, but also the texture of them. They probably remind me of my childhood, too, I think. I wore cords, and my dad had a corduroy jacket.

  Noah Baumbach

  Dad, Thinking, Childhood

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