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A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice. -- Craig Brown
My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie" category. -- Alissa Nutting
I am a sale shopper. I love a discounted item. -- Brad Goreski
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. -- Nate Silver
Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item. -- Isaac Marion
Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy. -- Stacy London
The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged. -- Roy H. Williams
There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. -- Walt Mossberg
I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? -- Erma Bombeck
It's unfortunate when people say you can't wear skirts or do item numbers, or a girl can't dress in a certain way. Are we going back to dark ages? -- Sonam Kapoor
Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational. -- Kevin Plank
This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine. -- Gary Oldman
The Fiesta Tour McDonald's exhibit is a one-of-a-kind compilation of items and great moments in Latin music history. Every item has a unique story, including the outfit which I wore during the 2008 Premios Juventud awards. -- Thalia
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The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam. -- Joanna Lumley
I'm a traditionalist with suits. It doesn't need extra pockets, and I don't want headphone jacks in my jacket. I appreciate designers who do different things, but for me, the most basic version of that item is what I want. -- Waris Ahluwalia
Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design. -- Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted. -- Kevin Mitnick
Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker. -- Kevin Mitnick
We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item. -- Annie Lennox
Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that. -- George H. W. Bush
Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a problem if the patented product is a luxury item, like parts that go into a smartphone, but can violate basic human rights if it involves things such as life-saving drugs. -- Ha-Joon Chang
About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent. -- Colum McCann
When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion. -- Alfonso Cuaron
For me, it's a purity thing about the joke itself. It's a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that's a legitimate item you have there. For me, it's nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It's just not what I'm in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Love is a sacrificial item -- Asa Don Brown
Read every line item until you get it. -- Michael Burry
Balls in general are not a good looking item. -- Scott Disick
It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition. -- Haruki Murakami
I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk. -- Dorothy Draper
This item is a mere fleabite in the ocean of our expenditure. -- Lord Randolph Churchill
The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets. -- Andre Leon Talley
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible. -- Ali Khamenei
Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item. -- Jay McInerney
My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item. -- Sara Blakely
An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised. -- Jodi Picoult
If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses. -- Ursula Andress
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. -- Thomas A. Edison
To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with skin wrapped around it. -- Fred Allen
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. -- Terry Pratchett
Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged." -- Roy H. Williams
A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value. -- Roy H. Williams
The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress. -- Tim Kaine
My favorite jacket is an emergency item. Much like myself, it is both snuggly and fashionable. -- Cassandra Clare
You might be a redneck if you grow Vidalia onions, rather than considering them a gourmet item. -- Jeff Foxworthy
The credibility of any item in finance is inversely proportionate to the amount of publicity it receives. -- Michael Scott
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display. -- Abhishek Bachchan
Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store. -- Julian Assange
One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to. -- Paul Parker
When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself. -- George Ayittey
A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare. -- Leon Uris
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak. -- Sylvia Brownrigg
If you splurge, do it on an item that's fun, because you'll feel good whenever you put it on. -- Lela Rose
You can set off bells when you walk out of a drugstore or department store with a tagged item. -- Frank Murkowski
A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment. -- Lisi Harrison
I am basically a blazer. If I were a clothing item, I would be a legging and a blazer. -- Serena Williams
At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht. -- Milton Berle
The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry. -- Frank Capra
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. -- Sherwood Smith
I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that. -- J. M. G. Le Clezio
An item must have a soul, it must function properly, be nice to hold and a pleasure to look at -- Kay Bojesen
If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top. -- Tim Gunn
No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer. -- W. Edwards Deming
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Frankly, from my perspective, the bomber jacket is such a classic item you can wear it even when it's not on trend. -- Tim Gunn
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in Gods revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?" -- Tommy Cooper
Consumers presented with six choices on an item were twice as likely to buy as consumers overwhelmed with 24 varieties of the same item. -- Sheena Iyengar
Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end. -- Allen W. Wood
Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
The absolute necessity to create a proper Earth government' - we should inscribe this as the priority item on the agenda of world affairs. -- Robert Muller
I wear a lot of things for fun. Sometimes Ill wear one item that is deliberately stupid because that will make the outfit cool. -- James Frecheville
I'm not out there picking out every single item that we sell, and also we don't even make every single item that we sell. -- Sophia Amoruso
When we have an item that has value to the school and the athletic department, we cannot throw it away just to be fair. -- Jim Davidson
The first item I designed for a real person was when I was about 10 and I made my first item of clothing for myself. -- Karen Walker
Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list. -- Ilona Andrews
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him. -- Germaine Greer
The value of an item"?in the mind of a consumer"?is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag. -- Roy H. Williams
This is President Obama's number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect. -- Michele Bachmann
I take it to heart that, for example, there aren't enough funds for AIDS research, but people pay 20 times the value of an item of clothing. -- Azzedine Alaia
Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel. -- Davy Crockett
Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose. -- Joseph Goebbels
She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing. -- Janet Fitch
A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella. -- David Nicholls
A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag. -- Roy H. Williams
Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing. -- Chuck Yeager
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
You can love someone but not want to keep a gift from that person. It's okay to pass an item along to someone who will appreciate it more. -- Gretchen Rubin
A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful. -- Martha Stewart
Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news. -- Richard Dawkins
If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb. -- Andy Rooney
Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not to line-item veto it out. -- John McCain
I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society. -- Mariano Rajoy
Gold is no longer an investment. Gold is no longer a portfolio item. Gold is certainly not a trading vehicle. Gold is your lifeline and I mean that literally. -- Jim Sinclair
The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south. -- Kit Williams
I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury -- Anna Kournikova
The Supreme Court has ruled that anybody can be strip-searched for any kind of arrest. That's something to think about the next time you bring 12 items into a 10-item-or-less lane. -- Jay Leno
The item of clothing that makes us feel powerful is the one that makes us feel confident and self-assured, that magically makes us look our best in all kinds of circumstances. -- Valerie Steele
For every item that carries the darkness of humanity there's one that holds the light. And that light is worth believing in. Not just in others, but in yourself as well. -- C.M. Rayne
It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others. -- Raymond Simard
I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached. -- Sara Sheridan
I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls. -- Hilaire Belloc
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. -- Thomas A. Edison
I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on. -- Aimee Bender
Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story. -- Barbara Tuchman
More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging. -- Dave Barry
Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
[Ronald] Reagan had an agenda, three agenda items. George W. Bush had some. But [Donald] Trump, because people weren't listening, Trump has the longest agenda item list I have seen in modern American politics. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same. -- Brian Tracy
It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item. -- Fred Astaire
[Ronald] Reagan had an agenda, three agenda items. George W. Bush had some. But [Donald] Trump, because people weren't listening, Trump has the longest agenda item list I have seen in modern American politics. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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