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• I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

  Bette Midler

  Shoes, Lady Macbeth, Wonderful

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• If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

  Arthur Miller

  Hypnosis, Shoes, Faults

  Marxism Today, January 1988.

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• I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

  James Naismith

  Basketball, Men, Goal

  James Naismith (1941). “Basketball: Its Origin and Development”, p.109, U of Nebraska Press

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• Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Easter, Moving

  Forbes, Volume 180, Issues 8-13, 2007.

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• I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!

  Amanda Peet

  Jeans, Trying, Looks

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• I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Jeans, Dresses, Uniforms

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• I do like my hair being pulled from time to time, it's like a pair of reins, innit?

  Katie Price

  Hair, Reins

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• I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

  Eliza Dushku

  Jobs, Hook, Actors

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• People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.

  Hedi Slimane

  Jeans, Ideas, People

  "Hedi Slimane: putting the flounce into fashion" by Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Cutting, Opposites

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• I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner jacket that I'd wear with a basic plain white shirt and some chinos and a pair of Nike trainers.

  Tinie Tempah

  Nike, Fashion, Nice

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• If I find a good pair of jeans, I'll buy two, and get them hemmed to my height, and then I'll end up wearing those two for everything.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Jeans, Two, Height

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• You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mother, Jeans, Dresses

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• When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.

  Rich Lowry

  Mom, Dad, Nice

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• It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

  Adolphe Menjou

  Jobs, Silent Films, Walking Sticks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn't feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it.

  Joel McCrea

  Horse, Guy, Actors

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

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• I'd define my everyday style as put together, but also comfortable. A great pair of jeans and a cute top can be so versatile.

  Shay Mitchell

  Cute, Jeans, Everyday

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• Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.

  Henning Mankell

  Believe, Shoes, People

  "A life in writing: Henning Mankell" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate... to me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door... he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.

  Michelle Obama

  Coffee, Shoes, Doors

  Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have a lot of Marvel figurines at home in a cabinet. Every time they make a new Marvel figure I put it in my cabinet.

  Stan Lee

  Home, Sound, Underwear

  "Stan Lee Answers Your Questions!". Interview, www.gamesradar.com. January 29, 2014.

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• The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.

  Josef von Sternberg

  Actors, Shears, Products

  Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”

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• Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.

  Mary Norris

  Nun

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?

  Lisa Loeb

  Sports, Guitar, Shoes

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• Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Shoes, Ideas

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• I always say to people, the Eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the Nineties, everyone wanted to fit in. It was all about having the same pair of trainers and the same pair of jeans. That's fatal. Whereas the Eighties you would never be seen in the same pair of jeans that somebody else was wearing.

  Nick Rhodes

  Jeans, People, Fit

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