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Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear…
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take…
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying…
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the…
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At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
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Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
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Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian…
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The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
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We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push…
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As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock…
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I'm not going to dinner with somebody who eats like a bird, nor do I want to eat like a bird. But…
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I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about…
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Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
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The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
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That punt was higher than Marion Berry on a fact-finding tour of Cartagena.
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Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.
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Isn't Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I'd like to be in her with. I mean, I'd like…
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I think I've always sort of been on the more boyish spectrum of girls. For example, I've never been chosen as 'one…
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to…
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James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of…
— Michael Jackson
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When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)
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