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TAMSIN EGERTON I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou... MARK RONSON When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn'... PATCH ADAMS I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need thin... YANN MARTEL I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I a... RACHEL ROY When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ... B. B. KING When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good. ZOOEY DESCHANEL I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes. KIRSTY GALLACHER If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down. ROBERT ALTMAN A good feeling for me is when you train, and then you put on fresh clothes. New clothes after a trai... CONOR MCGREGOR The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that some... HUMPHREY LYTTELTON If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't ca... DAVID ROBINSON It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer... NAOMI WATTS I've been wearing Chinese clothes since I was 14. I can't wear a suit. I'm small, and wh... AZZEDINE ALAIA You don't need really expensive clothes to look cute. CHRISTY ROMANO Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls an... JEFF FOXWORTHY When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that ... DANICA PATRICK You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the ro... BORIS VALLEJO I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did. LAUREN HUTTON Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven... VICTORIA MORAN Go out there and try on everything - short skirts, long skirts, mid length, little jackets, men'... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING I believe in comfort. If you don't feel comfortable in your clothes, it's hard to think of a... DONNA KARAN My view on working with any government in the world is that there are things that you will agree upo... TIM COOK I have a few girlfriends, but nearly all my friends are guys. I don't think I ever wore girl clo... KATHARINE ISABELLE I'm trying to be more put-together. My closets are very messy. I like Rebecca Minkoff; her cloth... MORGAN SAYLOR Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, y... MAURICE STRONG The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. ... ZANA MARJANOVIC When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that... BILL PARCELLS I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a... JANET SUZMAN A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and ... ZACHARY LEVI I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get le... TAYLOR SWIFT People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, a... VICTORIA PENDLETON I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS I'm not really interested in clothes. Mainly, I like wearing clothes that don't make me stan... DAVID CAMERON I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can... TOM FORD I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have... BARBRA STREISAND I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobb... IRWIN ROSE Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me. ADAM DRIVER When you don't have a laugh track, you can make the clothes funny. We can make a sign funny. We ... MITCHELL HURWITZ You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle. WILLIAM J. CLINTON I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify... L'WREN SCOTT When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h... JACK WHITE I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. Tha... CRYSTAL REED I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like yo... ANDRE BENJAMIN I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes.... RACHEL MCADAMS I don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off w... DARON MALAKIAN Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean t... TRICIA HELFER I don't like a tormented photograph. Something attracts you in them, but the attraction isn'... MARIO TESTINO You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. ... STEVE CARELL If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fi... DON LEMON It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about ... BETH DITTO You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them. AL LEITER You get those hunger pains. 'I am so hungry. We don't have any food. What are we going to ea... BEN MCLEMORE I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you ... MAGGIE CAREY I like to wear beautiful clothes, but I don't have that many. NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is ess... BARRY HANNAH I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a cert... PAIGE VANZANT I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competit... OSCAR ROBERTSON I don't like the whole off-and-on thing. I don't like 'taking a break.' Either you... SELENA GOMEZ I don't get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because... SAM TRAMMELL I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggera... OZWALD BOATENG Law is when you don't have a method of solving a problem... It's just nailing a proclamation... JACQUE FRESCO I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes. DAVID OYELOWO If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don'... MARK ZUPAN It's very important to feel good in my clothes. I like fashion that suits me. I don't take i... CHARLOTTE CASIRAGHI I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pic... DOUGLAS COUPLAND I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don't love fashion, but I love clothes completely. MIUCCIA PRADA All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere els... MARY ROACH Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You g... TYLER PERRY Don't you love it that Prince doesn't use Twitter? Don't you think he's somewhere on... BRUNO MARS I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll kno... SHY GLIZZY There have been times where I've said, 'Jesus, I don't believe in you anymore, get out o... MIKE YACONELLI It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just li... ED BELFOUR I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live... KESHA We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'... DANICA PATRICK I don't have makeup on all the time, but when I want, I have fun with my friends choosing clothe... EMMA WATSON It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don&... JOHN HUGHES I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and pu... ELLIOTT SMITH Hmm... my bedroom's really messy. It's probably the messiest bedroom you could ever think of... PIXIE LOTT I like styling girls that don't normally dress in vintage clothes and don't normally wear re... DITA VON TEESE I've heard people say, 'Why do you have to do a show that's called 'Black Girls Rock... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments. CANDY CROWLEY I feel like I've always been doubted or slighted. Let's be honest. When you're a walk-on... CLAY MATTHEWS III It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't li... JULIA ROBERTS I don't really like the sound of Auto-Tune. I don't like when it's extremely audible, wh... T.I. What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are ... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-br... RENEE OLSTEAD I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash. JOHN LYDON You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to... RAY BRADBURY To me, it's really easy to feel glamorous and beautiful with red lips. It's great because yo... RASHIDA JONES I don't design clothes, I design dreams. RALPH LAUREN
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