James Boswell Quotes
[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
Abbey Clancy
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For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
Barbara Demick
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When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.
Abby Wambach
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I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
Upton Sinclair
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I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
Nancy Reagan
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The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.
Val Kilmer
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I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.
Carey Mulligan
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
Oleg Cassini
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I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
Adam Driver
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I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.
Victor Garber
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
B. C. Forbes
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I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
Jack Henry Abbott
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I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
Tea Leoni
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Dresses are beautiful, but I'm such a slacks or a jeans person. Whenever a woman has a slick suit or dress on, she looks sharp.
Talisa Soto
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If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.
Caity Lotz
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My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.
Laura Benanti
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I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
Wendy E. Long
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I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?
Farrah Fawcett
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If you're wondering by now who I am, look no further than the mirror,Because I am the greed and fear - and every ounce of hate in you.
Paul Weller Incognito
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
Wayne Dyer
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To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
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When 'Christians' cite the Bible as the basis for secular policies, they must explain why they believe Muslims in the Middle East are evil for doing the same with the Koran.
Kurt Eichenwald
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Love is the funeral of hearts.
Ville Valo HIM
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[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.
James Boswell