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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
Vera Wang

Night, Fashion, Challenge

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
William J. Clinton

Politics, Time, Good

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
Marc Andreessen

Good, Matter, Either

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.
Marc Andreessen

Trust, Time, Business

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Robert Benchley

Left, Behind, Author

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
Sylvester Stallone

Eyes, Sense, Handsome

I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.
David Attenborough

Whether, Ardent

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
Alexander McQueen

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather

Age, Before, Writer

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Means, Stand, Spirit

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nature, Him, Often

What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.
Salma Hayek

Real, Personal, Making

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
Colin Firth

Good, Real, Wrong

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'
Mehmet Oz

Love, Mother, End

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Government, Happen, Understand

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
Gustav Mahler

Love, Place, Takes

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Home, Crazy, Woman

Well, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we need to remember that.
Benjamin Carson

Remember, Become, President

Communication works for those who work at it.
John Powell

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
Adam Sandler

Family, School, Character

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
Arthur Miller

Nation, Act, Longer

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.
Jon Meacham

Work, Politics, Great

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
Brittany Murphy

Change, Time, Good

My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.
Tony Blair

Faith, Work, Respect

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Makes, Fiction, Reader

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
Ai Weiwei

Work, Politics, Society

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
Daniel Webster

Special, Himself, Left

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
Ian Hart

Work, True, Gave

Every director works differently.
Cate Blanchett

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
Cate Blanchett

Women, Telling, Sitting

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