People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
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DOROTHY PARKER There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply... DOROTHY PARKER Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a poi... DOROTHY PARKER I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si... DOROTHY PARKER I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn. DOROTHY PARKER They sicken at the calm that know the storm. DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. DOROTHY PARKER Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. DOROTHY PARKER Only Christ could have conceived Christ. JOSEPH PARKER He'd have given me rolling lands, Houses of marble, and billowing farms, Pearls, to trickle ... DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ... DOROTHY PARKER Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejo... THEODORE PARKER Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, t... THEODORE PARKER By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infi... DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head, They stroked my cheek and brow; And time could heal a hu... DOROTHY PARKER Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. THEODORE PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are. DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ... DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world. DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown? DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie. DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the th... DOROTHY PARKER It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him... THEODORE PARKER I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, After four... DOROTHY PARKER Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host. DOROTHY PARKER Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (B... DOROTHY PARKER It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard. DOROTHY PARKER He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. DOROTHY PARKER And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it tru... DOROTHY PARKER Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground al... DOROTHY PARKER Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion. DOROTHY PARKER Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stoc... THEODORE PARKER We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born... THEODORE PARKER Remorse is the pain of sin. THEODORE PARKER Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. THEODORE PARKER [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we wer... THEODORE PARKER