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I've always dressed like a dude.

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• My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Picture

• I was always very focused on how people dressed.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • People
  • Always
  • Dressed

• You can't get dressed without good hair.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Dressed

• I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.

  

  Vanna White
  • Enjoy
  • Dressed
  • Barbie

• But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Dressed

• You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Opera
  • Dressed
  • Operation

• People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Success
  • Secret
  • Laughed

• A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Woman
  • Dressed
  • Elegant

• My mother dressed me always very conservatively.

  

  Selma Blair
  • Conservative
  • Mother`s
  • Dressed

• It's fun to be a girl, and get dressed up, but that's not how I really am.

  

  Sung Hi Lee
  • Fun
  • Girl
  • Dressed

• We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.

  

  Benjamin Guggenheim
  • Prepared
  • Dressed
  • Gentlemen

• I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I moved to the States when I was 19. I was very impressed early on by being around people who spoke my language and ate the same food and listened to the same music, dressed the same. But then you look around and, you know, you're not in Puerto Rico.

  

  Miguel Zenon
  • Language
  • Actually
  • Dressed

• It's terribly easy to be well dressed. It's much more difficult to be badly dressed.

  

  Nicholas Haslam
  • Difficult
  • Well
  • Dressed

• Part of what you hear when somebody says something awful to you is like, 'They're right, I look ridiculous, why am I dressed this way, I should go home and change.' For me that voice is always in my head, right around the corner.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Home
  • Change
  • Voice

• Sometimes there's a day where I don't feel good being out in the world, and I feel unsafe in the world in general. And an anxiety about just showing up in the world. It's kind of irrational, but people do say things to me out in the street about how I'm dressed.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Feel Good
  • Dressed
  • Irrational

• They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Day

• I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Age

• People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.

  

  John Calvin
  • School
  • Blessing
  • Scripture

• Look at native cultures - they've lasted for tens of thousands of years, not doing everything right. We wouldn't want to emulate them in many ways, but their basic philosophies - being a part of nature, a part of a tribe or group without elevating, not what you call dominator philosophies - they lasted for tens of thousands of years. It took us to come and put them asunder.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Culture
  • Looks
  • Philosophy

• I still love listening to the old stuff - Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, you know. I stick to the old school stuff, but I love Mark Ronson. I love John Legend.

  

  Evan Ross
  • Love
  • Listening
  • Stuff

• I've always dressed like a dude.

  

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