Leather Jackets Quotes

• To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

  Barack Obama

  Friends, Rocks, Feminist

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.

  Barack Obama

  Loyalty, Names, White

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.101, Canongate Books

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• When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

  Phil Daniels

  Kids, Thug, Would Be

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• My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Sweet, Heart

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• Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

  George Michael

  Needs, Slides, Yeah

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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

  Jeans, Long, Looks

  "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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• You never see anyone wearing a black turtleneck and leather jacket doing something nice.

  Daniel Tosh

  Nice, Black, Turtlenecks

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• I like edgy but classic looks - like Chanel mixed with Alexander McQueen. My personal style is edgier. My closet is just black, gray, and white. I'm more comfortable in darker colors and leather jackets.

  Ashley Benson

  Color, White, Black

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

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• No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.

  Jandy Nelson

  Sports, Guy, Motorcycle

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.101, Penguin

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• Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper or a beaten-up leather jacket or even just a cotton T-shirt.

  Tamara Mellon

  Smart, Men, Jeans

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• A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

  Ronan Farrow

  New York, Party, Simple

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• I have a really simple wardrobe. I wear a low-scoop tee every day with a tux or leather jacket and tux pants or black jeans. That's pretty much it.

  Johan Lindeberg

  Simple, Jeans, Black

  "Best New Designers: Meet Johan Lindeberg (Again)". Interview with Andrew Richdale, www.gq.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

  Melissa Marr

  Girl, School, Car

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• A lot of young artists and musicians that we work with, you think they're gonna want to come in and buy the rock star-looking leather jacket - whatever it is that you think they're gonna want. They all want a suit. They want a tuxedo jacket, they want a suit. They don't want to look like their dad in it, but they want a suit.

  Paul Weller

  Stars, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• The thing that sometimes gets lost is people look at the harder edge of me ... the leather jacket and the tough rock 'n' roll attitude... and get the wrong impression that I'm mean. That's really something I don't want people to think because I don't think that's the case.

  Joan Jett

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I'm in a funny position: I've been in one band in my life and that was with my brother. As incredible as that has been, I feel like I'm missing out a little bit on being in a real rock band - or how I imagine being in a real rock band to be. It's like being in a street gang: you all wear the same leather jacket or whatever.

  Eleanor Friedberger

  Brother, Real, Rocks

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'd always wanted to write a song about a leather jacket and how wearing it makes you feel. I love leather jackets, and I've got a big collection of them.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Writing, Bigs

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us at the time, because those limitations allowed us to push ourselves as songwriters and gave us a strong sound that people could recognize as ours, like wearing a leather jacket every day. A uniform. They know it's you - and that's great - but my original intention wasn't to be a shoegaze band or to be derivative of one sound.

  Tamaryn

  Strong, Self, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's just about bein' yourself...even when you're on the dole, it's about your leather jacket. Music is the last refuge of the working class, along with football...in fact, gigs and riots are the only things left.

  Pete Doherty

  Football, Class, Gigs

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• I once had a leather jacket that got ruined in the rain. Why does moisture ruin leather? Aren't cows outside a lot of the time? When it's raining, do cows go up to the farmhouse, "Let us in! We're all wearing leather! Open the door! We're going to ruin the whole outfit here!"

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Rain, Doors, Doe

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• I don't like any one race or look or type of guy. My tastes as far as looks go are very diverse. I like guys with scruffy beards and leather jackets, but I also like a clean-cut 'GQ'-type guy, so my tastes are very ranged among somebody who laughs at my dumb jokes, too. I have plenty of them.

  Sasha Grey

  Cutting, Race, Laughing

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• Even at summer time, I'm still jacket shopping. I've always found that if you find a really nice leather jacket you kind of just go with it because they're timeless.

  Shaun White

  Summer, Nice, Shopping

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I don't have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I'm going to Hawaii and I'm asking myself "Do I pack it? It could be cold." I'm inventing scenarios where I could wear it.

  Shaun White

  Simple, Gold, Asking

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I always like to incorporate one or two chic accessories that contrast with the more gritty look of my daily uniform: a leather jacket and jeans.

  Johan Lindeberg

  Jeans, Two, Accessories

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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

  Jeans, Ties, Boots

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