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• An Airstream is a lot like a first love: you are lured by her charm, seduced by her beauty, and once bitten, you are forever chasing after her mystique.

  Bruce Littlefield

  Love You, First Love, Forever

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• And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

  Erika Slezak

  Jobs, Years, People

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• There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

  Rahul Dravid

  Elements, Radio, Jam

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• Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Way, Jazz

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• People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm probably the realest person you'll ever meet.

  Nick Cannon

  Thinking, People, Persons

  "How to Date a Diva". Interview with Andrew Daniels, www.menshealth.com. November 4, 2011.

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• The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

  James Fisher

  Leadership, Confidence, Loyalty

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• I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

  Alistair Maclean

  Art, Novelists, Storyteller

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• Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Insane, Directors, Different

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• There is no mystique to Tai Chi Chuan. What is difficult is the perseverance. It took me ten years to discover my chi, but thirty years to learn how to use it. Once you see the benefit, you won't want to stop.

  Ma Yueliang

  Perseverance, Art, Years

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• There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer there's no difference between selling airlines seats and chocolate bars.

  Mike Batt

  Differences, Romance, Chocolate

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• Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

  Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

  Intelligent, Stories, Debt

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• I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

  John Steinbeck

  Thinking, Texas, Mind

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.125, Penguin

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• That's kind of the mystique If you [post your outfit] on Instagram all of the time, I'm going to see a bunch of people walking around looking like Shump.

  Iman Shumpert

  People, Instagram, Kind

  Source: wwd.com

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• the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Details Of Life, Wife

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• Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Common

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.66, Routledge

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• The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'

  Andrei Codrescu

  Real, Nice, Thinking

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• It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Rhetorical Strategies, Law, Catholic

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• Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.

  Betty Friedan

  Perfect, Males, Bears

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• Walk around. If you are invisible, the mystique of the President's office may perpetuate inaccurate impressions about you or the President, to his detriment. After all, you may not be as bad as they're saying.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Office, President, May

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• It was the era that I later analyzed, the "feminine mystique" era, [when] "career woman" was a dirty word. And so I didn't want a career anymore. [But] I had to do something. So I started freelancing for women's magazines.

  Betty Friedan

  Dirty, Careers, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't want to know everything about bands, I want to have some mystique remain because sometimes when you get all of this information you realize that they are just people and that actually takes away a little bit from the aura of somebody.

  John Bush

  People, Want, Littles

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• The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

  Betty Friedan

  Art, Sex, Commitment

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• Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Imagination, Political

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.41, Canongate Books

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• I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Powerful, Sibling, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think you can realise that a lot of people in bands - well - I guess you kinda wanna... There's a lot less mystique in playing in a rock band today, than in the 60's or 70's. I don't think there's any bands that I can think of, that have this rock god myth that like Led Zeppelin had.

  Chris Baio

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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