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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• I can mix and match a cute shirt with some skinny jeans under a leather jacket and it looks fun and unique.

  Miley Cyrus

  Cute, Fun, Unique

  "For young fashion fans, the 1980s are back" by Samantha Critchell, www2.readingeagle.com. December 21, 2008.

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

  Daniel Tosh

  Nice, Black, Turtlenecks

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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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• My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Blue, Jeans, Black

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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'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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• Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.

  John Lydon

  Silly, Competition, Punk

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• I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Black And White, Sweaters, People

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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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• 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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• People think pop is rock, and the lines are getting blurred. Now Rihanna's wearing f-ckin' leather jackets, and it's really annoying . . . (My style is) high-class hooker. I dress for myself. Clearly, it's provocative, but it makes me feel good. And if the only reason it makes someone uncomfortable is because I'm 17, then that person's a scumbag because it shouldn't matter.

  Taylor Momsen

  Thinking, Rocks, Class

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• It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.

  Arthur Smith

  Men, Age, Should

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• Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

  Albert Einstein

  Years, Hair, Long

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• On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.

  Dan Mathews

  Animal, Next Steps, Fur

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• I don't like walking around with people thinking I'm doing uncool s--, because there's nothing I'm doing that's uncool. It's all innovative. You just might not understand it yet. But it's cool. Family is super cool. Going home to one girl every night is super cool. Just going home and getting on the floor and playing with your child is super cool. Not wearing a red leather jacket, and just looking like a dad and s--, is like super cool. Having someone that I can call Mom again. That s-- is super cool.

  Kanye West

  Girl, Mom, Children

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• Every day I'd say I look different. Sometimes I look really formal, sometimes I love the classic Stella McCartney, Chloe Sevigny and Gwyneth Paltrow thing. Other days I like being rock star and wearing leather jackets and studs. I love wearing Burberry - it's the perfect combination of formal and punky.

  Ellie Goulding

  Stars, Rocks, Perfect

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

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• I still love the skinny jeans thing and I wear my favorite leather jacket constantly. I like being kind of a rock star. I love that I can feel comfortable in a small dress or I can feel comfortable wearing a baggy T-shirt.

  Ellie Goulding

  Stars, Rocks, Jeans

  "Ellie Goulding talks style, music and why she loves Beyonce". Interview with Nerissa Pacio Itchon, blog.sfgate.com. April 26, 2011.

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• I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! If I had had the money I wouldn't have spent it on shit like that.

  John Lydon

  Leather, Jackets, Knows

  "This is my Britain. Our Britain. Not some German tourist's" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

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• I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Thug, People

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status.

  Steig Larsson

  Tattoo, Girl, Zero

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