Memorable Quotes - Page 28

• I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Beautiful, Fashion, Clothes

  "Farewell to Oscar de la Renta Hollywood's best loved fashion designer" by Amber Graafland, www.mirror.co.uk. October 21, 2014.

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• There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Emotional, Elements

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

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• Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

  Barry Humphries

  Humor, Laughing, Missing

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• Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Country, Sacrifice

  Annie Besant (1913). “Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform”

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• She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.

  Elsa Lanchester

  Sarcastic, Women, Mouths

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• If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

  Estelle Getty

  Sorry, Mean, Funny Marriage

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• Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

  Laurie Colwin

  Friendship, Sisterhood, Two

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• When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

  Edith Evans

  Nice, Women, Feminist

  The Observer, September 30, 1956.

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• Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

  Dawn Addams

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

  Lillian Gordy Carter

  Women, Elderly, Age

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• I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

  Carrie Nation

  Women, Air, Smoking

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• I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Women, Liberty, Jewelry

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.269

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• By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

  Eve Babitz

  Women, Maturity

  Eve Babitz (2015). “Eve's Hollywood”, p.151, New York Review of Books

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  You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

  Lauren Bacall

  Hate, Winning, Battle

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• Talking of first times Stephanie, I bet your first time was really memorable for you and the captain ot the football team .. and the basketball team .. and the softball team, the track team, the chess club and the pool boy!

  Chris Jericho

  Basketball, Softball, Football

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• Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Writing, Night, Ideas

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• I have more influence now than when I had the power.

  Gough Whitlam

  Leadership, Power, Political

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

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• I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

  Carol Burnett

  Funny Inspirational, Thinking, Teeth

  "Teeth implants an involved process". Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, February 27, 2017.

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• It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Funny Inspirational, Long Ago, Snacks

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.191, Northwestern University Press

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• The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.

  Shozo Tanaka

  Heart, Rivers, Water

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• How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?

  Alan Greenspan

  Assets, Irrational, Exuberance

  Remarks at American Enterprise Institute dinner, Washington, D.C., 5 Dec. 1996

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• Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?

  Raymond J. Donovan

  Office, Reputation

  "The Scandal Machine — When Will We Ever Learn?" by Lanny Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2015.

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• My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

  Dick Cheney

  Stupid, Iraq, Facts

  Dick Cheney, Richard B. Cheney, Liz Cheney (2012). “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir”, p.400, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes a village to raise a child.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Village To Raise A Child, It Takes A Village

  Hillary Clinton (0101). “Talking It Over: A collection of her newspaper columns from 1995 to 1996”, p.78, Creators Publishing

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• I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl.

  Russ Grimm

  Basketball, Running, Mother

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