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“No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your “religious freedom.” If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.”

—Barack Obama

“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”

—Tina Fey

“Imitation is not always the sincerest form of flattery. Sometimes it is identity theft.”

—Overheard at work

“I need my relationship with a little bit of milk.”

—Carrie Bradshaw, Sex & the City

“Of course one worries about getting older - we are all fearful of death, let us not kid ourselves. I’m simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?”

—Cate Blanchett

“And though she be but little, she is fierce.”

—Shakespeare, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Elegance is a question of personality, more than one’s clothing.”

—Jean-Paul Gaultier

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”

—Maurice Sendak 

(Source: polioshimmy, via nouvelle-nouveau)

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

—Oscar Wilde

“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.”

—Charles Mingus