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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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The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
— John le Carre
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But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being…
— Juliette Binoche
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Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've…
— Norman Borlaug
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A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or…
— James M. Cain
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But women are coming into Wall Street in large numbers — and they still are not making partner and are not getting…
— Muriel Siebert
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We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t…
— Jerry Brown
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I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that.
— Rita Ora
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I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites;…
— Paula Yates
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I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work…
— David Cook
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The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But…
— Howard Dean
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I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
— Carl Hiaasen
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In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume.…
— Jared Diamond
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