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The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.

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• Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Home
  • Help
  • Attention

• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Job
  • Health

• We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Woman

• On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Long
  • War
  • Peace

• Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Heaven
  • Window

• The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Baseball
  • Tragedy
  • Big

• He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Hell
  • He
  • Inquisitive

• When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • People
  • Know
  • Hand

• Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Alone
  • Confidence

• Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Life
  • World
  • Die

• A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Famous

• I was a complete outsider in high school.

  

  Karen O
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

  

  Iman
  • Science
  • Political
  • Fashion

• It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Work
  • Different
  • Yourself

• Men are every bit as gendered as women.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bit

• I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Movie
  • Building
  • Looking

• A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Talent

• We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

  

  Norman Maclean
  • Live
  • Love
  • Understanding

• Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rung the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!

  

  Michael Fish
  • Woman
  • Watching
  • Hurricane

• The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.

  

  Edwin Hardy Amies
  • Woman
  • Strange
  • Clothes