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• It's empowering for women to have some tricks up their sleeve to help them look their best.

  Nina Garcia

  Empowering, Looks, Helping

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• Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

  Fred Durst

  Feelings, Shells, Sensitivity

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• I wake up every morning and thank God I live in a country where all of this is possible. Where you have the Yankee ingenuity to roll up your sleeves, get a band of people who believe in something and go for it and make it happen. It doesn't happen anywhere else.

  Brian Binnie

  Country, Morning, Believe

  "Spaceshipone Wins The X Prize". www.wired.com. October 4, 2014.

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• Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Stars, Angel, Mind

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• A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

  Charles Studd

  Missionary, Bones, Good Things

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• Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.358

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• God's always got a custard pie up his sleeve.

  Margaret Forster

  Pie, Custard

  "Fictional character: Georgy". "Georgy Girl", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

  Elvis Costello

  Heart, Cuffs, Remarks

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• Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Faith, Eye, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.329

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• Sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Care, Macbeth Sleep

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.127, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have always been a very passionate player and person. I often wear my emotions on my sleeve, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. I hope that my teammates always respect that of me, as I trust they know my commitment to winning.?

  A. J. Burnett

  Commitment, Winning, Player

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• Unlike me, Renee was not shy; she was a real people-pleaser. She worried way too much what people thought of her, wore her heart on her sleeve, expected too much from people, and got hurt too easily. She kept other people's secrets like a champ, but told her own too fast. She expected the world not to cheat her and was always surprised when it did.

  Rob Sheffield

  Hurt, Real, Heart

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.66, Crown Archetype

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• John Terry wears his shirt on his sleeve.

  Ray Parlour

  Shirts

  "Stupid football quotes: 2012's best gaffes from managers and pundits" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. December 31, 2012.

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• No, if I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match. If you got the guns, go for it. I got two breadsticks sticking out of my sleeve. I'll stick with sleeves.

  Andy Roddick

  Gun, Two, People

  Press conference, www.asapsports.com. January 18, 2003.

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• I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

  Pierre Salinger

  Son, Emotional, Ostriches

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• I don't wear my faith on my sleeve, but I definitely do walk with it every day in my heart.

  Niecy Nash

  Heart, My Heart, Walks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Albertans have always worn their passions on their sleeves.

  Ralph Klein

  Passion, Worn

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• I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

  Charles Stross

  Age, Pay, Time Is Money

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• George: [On the 'Two Virgins' cover] 'What I thought of the sleeve then was the same as I think now: it's just two not-very-nice-looking bodies, two flabby bodies naked. It's harmless, really - different strokes for different folks.

  George Harrison

  Nice, Thinking, Two

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• Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.

  Ellie Goulding

  Heart, Political, Littles

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

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• When you're really trying to make serious change, you don't want people to get caught up in emotion because change isn't emotion. Because change isn't emotion. Its real work and organization and strategy - that's just the truth of it. I mean, you pull people in with inspiration, but then you have to roll up your sleeves and you've got to make sacrifices and you have got to have structure.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Real, Hard Work

  "One-On-One With Michelle Obama". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. February 14, 2008.

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• A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not: a beard neglected; which you have not: — but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having1 in beard is a younger brother's revenue: — Then your hose should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Eye, Shoes

  "The Plays of William Shakespeare".

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• Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.

  Cassandra Clare

  Doors, Giving, Darkness

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!

  Leonard Cohen

  Girl, Sweet, Spring

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• Ashley tugged on his sleeve. "You're scaring me Walter." "Sorry I guess talking about ghosts is-" "It's not that," she interrupted shaking her head. "You're using logic. That's scaring me." Walters eyebrows knitted. "So much for terms of endearment

  Bryan Davis

  Sorry, Talking, Eyebrows

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