Quotes with shoulder-high

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  • Coco Chanel Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: ''One must not hide that!'' Then someone tells you: ''The shoulder is on the back.'' I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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  • Abraham Lincoln With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Camille Paglia Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Germaine Greer Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Bob Taft Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Elizabeth Taylor You can't cry on a diamond's shoulder, and diamonds won't keep you warm at night, but they're sure fun when the sun shines.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Brit Hume You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Jane Austen You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • George S. Patton You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Jeremy Corbyn You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.
    Jeremy Corbyn
    former Leader of the British Labour Party, MP for Islington North (1949 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson You've got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Carl Honore Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Hitopadesa Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Ambrose Bierce Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Andre Breton Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
    Original: Tout porte à croire qu'il existe un certain point de l'esprit d'où la vie et le mort, le réel et l'imaginaire, le passé et le futur, le communicable et l'incommunicable, le haut et le bas cessent d'être perçus contradictoirement.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Brad Schneider If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course on modern American history and use Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury as a primary text.
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  • Carlos Slim In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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