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A word about blue jeans, which, when I was growing up, were called dungarees, one of the more unfortunate marketing ideas of our time: Starting as a work garment for miners, the ubiquitous blue jeans became a staple of the counterculture starting when Brando wore them in 'On the Waterfront' and remained so through the anti-war protests of the '70s.

Roger Stone

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I realize that 'Postcards' was like input, and 'Ghostwriting' was output. I had all these frustrations and feelings before I did those two projects. 'Postcards' was something that brought new life and creative inspiration into the record, while 'Ghostwriting' was relieving myself.

Jens Lekman

LifeMyselfCreativeNew LifeNew

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

Andy Garcia

StoryWishI WishTell

You can only do so much in the gym or pool. Seventy per cent of it is physical, but the final 30 per cent is down to the mental capacity to actually control what you can do in competition.

Tom Daley

CompetitionControlYouGymDown

MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, is an important cause of healthcare-associated infections.

Tom Frieden

ImportantCause

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

Mary Lou Williams

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If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

Mike Singletary

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Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

Michael Schudson

WorkWondersPublicExtent

Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.

Jose Mujica

AmericanImportantMoreForceThan

I'm a human entropy producer.

Dean Kamen

HumanProducerEntropy

I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

TimePeopleThinkPovertyGoPoor

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.

Christina Grimmie

FunnyYourselfStupidBe Yourself

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

Claude Chabrol

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