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• So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

  Vanna White

  Mistake, Home, Television

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• . . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Men, Hands, Law

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• When I step foot to my locker and change shoes for training, its like turning on a switch. I become a creature. Not a human. I look to tear apart anyone and everyone in my way to hugeness and I don't care how I do it. I can feel my heart start jumping and my body start saying "beat me into the ground like a red-headed step child. I want punishment" I WANT TO BE A FREAK, A FREAK I TELL YOU!!

  Jason Bennett

  Badass, Children, Heart

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• I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.

  Theresa May

  Nice, Saws, Pairs

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

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• Why did I lose? No reason, though you might like to know that I got tired, my ears started popping, the rubber came off my shoes, I got cramp, and I lost one of my contact lenses. Other than that I was in great shape.

  Bob Lutz

  Tired, Lost Ones, Tennis

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• The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

  Elie Wiesel

  Holocaust, Entering, Sacred

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

  Peter Yarrow

  Leadership, Role Models, Example

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• I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it like a crowded shoe. If you have a strong layout, you can let the plants seed themselves all over the place. Haphazard, unexpected... I like to be surprised by a garden.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Strong, Garden, Design

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• It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

  Clive James

  Sports, Men, Thinking

  "Falling Towards England". Book by Clive James, 1985.

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• Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Way, Path, Needs

  Jennifer Chiaverini (2012). “The Giving Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel”, p.136, Penguin

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• All women are troublemakers who take the money their husbands need desperately for a new and better speaker, and selfishly squander it on things like shoes for the children, homogenized milk, or perhaps A SECOND DRESS!

  Stan Freberg

  Children, Husband, Dresses

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• I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Eccentric, Nonsense, Charming

  "Manolo Blahnik: 'There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes'". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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• The most tragic moment of my life was the first show I ever designed for. I had been asked to make shoes for Ossie Clark's show in the early '70s. I was so inexperienced that I didn't put the steel in the heels of the shoes, which is required to support the shoe and the wearer. So the girls came out walking very strangely in these rubber, bendy high-heeled shoes I had made. I thought 'Oh dear god! This is the end of me.' But after the show, even David Hockney and Cecil Beaton said to me 'It was so interesting that the girls were moving in such a different way.'

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Moving, Interesting

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• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  Ornette Coleman

  Mother, Shining, Made

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• To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

  Eli Pariser

  People, Important, Identity

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• Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.

  Charlie Brooker

  Real, Doors, Doubt

  "The very fabric of society is breaking down around us. What the hell is there left to believe in?" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2009.

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• I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz.

  Toks Olagundoye

  Avid, Fans, Louboutins

  "Toks Olagundoye of 'The Neighbors': 23 Things You Don't Know", abcnews.go.com.

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• It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Dad, Spring, Kids

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (2000). “Respect: An Exploration”, p.4, Basic Books

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• The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

  Christian Louboutin

  Rays, Social

  "Sole Mate". Interview with Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

  Matthew McGrory

  Chicago, Running Out Of Time, Shows

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• In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own.

  Cameron Diaz

  Girl, Want, Stories

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• We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady - instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Pace, Slow Down

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• It doesn't matter how fast or how far you're going. If you're putting on your shoes and going out for a run, you are a runner, you are in that club.

  Kara Goucher

  Running, Going Out, Clubs

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• We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Jobs

  Blog of Janusz Korwin-Mikke, April 29, 2009.

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• There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.

  Christopher McDougall

  Motivation, Stress, Inspiration

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