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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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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.
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We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period,…
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I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the…
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The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply…
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In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the…
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I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very…
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Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
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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…
— Virginia Postrel
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