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In most matters regarding apparel, I am a big fan of natural fibers - wool, cotton, and so on. Not when it comes to socks. An elastic fiber of some type is necessary.
Roger Stone
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Political Consultant
Apparel
Cotton
Fiber
Natural
Type
Wool
I Am Big Big Fan
I Am Big Fan
Big Fan
Fan
Elastic
Matters
I Am Big Fan Fan
Regarding
Socks
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As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it.
Percy Sledge
/
Musician
Cotton
Cotton Fields
Fields
Melody
Man Woman Never
Loves
Sang
Tune
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I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.
Eartha Kitt
/
Singer
Children
Cotton
Son
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The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.
Timothy Thomas Fortune
/
Journalist
Men
Corn
Cotton
Long
White Man
Whiteness
Blacks
Bloom
Make Up
Minds
Remain
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Loose, breathable fabrics are great... choose brands that have soft blazers such as loose linen or cotton - it doesn't have to be a structured blazer with shoulder pads.
Jeannie Mai
/
Brands
Cotton
Pads
Blazer
Fabrics
Loose
Shoulder
Structured
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I feel best in soft and natural materials such as cotton and silk. I wear collections from all designers. They all have outstanding cuts and extremely pleasant materials.
Laetitia Casta
/
Actress
Cotton
Cutting
Designer
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The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.
Robert E. Howard
/
Author
Men
Cattle
Cotton
Oil
People
Usual
Wheat
Mainly
Percentage
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I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it.
John Hunter
/
Cotton
Rhythm
Day Style Every Day
Developed
Mule
Ole
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I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.
Issey Miyake
/
Fashion Designer
Care
Cold
Cotton
Easy
Fabric
Take Care
Used
Warm
Work Great Care
Fabrics
Wear
Start
Wash
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I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.
Jimmy Dean
/
Singer
Cotton
Cows
Grain
Wheat
Boy
Oh
Chicken
Houses
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Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.
Francis Parkman
/
Historian
Air
Aspect
Blue
Blue Sky
Clouds
Cotton
Hazy
Light
Prairie
Sky
Visible
Breath
Piles
Stirred
Wore
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Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.
Robin Williams
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Actor
Food
Closest
Cotton
Green
Nylon
Turns
Bean
Bred
Cook
Closest Thing
Eaten
Tastes
String
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In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
Mary Harris Jones
/
Cotton
Day And Night
Georgia
Mills
Protect
Work Day Night
Bill
Work Night Day
Little Children
Passed
Whom
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The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.
Timothy Noah
/
Journalist
Batting
Cotton
Federal Government
Ingratitude
Trample
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Growing up South African, I was comparatively in a world of privilege, especially being the youngest and being figuratively wrapped up in cotton wool by the rest of the family.
Jodi Balfour
/
Cotton
Privilege
Wool
African
Comparatively
Figuratively
South African
Wrapped
Youngest
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When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton denim in the world. Now all that is gone.
Anna Sui
/
Fashion Designer
Cotton
Mills
Produce
Wool
Beautiful World Most Beautiful
Beautiful Most Beautiful World
Most Beautiful
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We can work with anybody. I mean, we passed the 9/11 health bill with Tom Cotton. Most people would assume I wouldn't be able to work with Tom Cotton and Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.
Kirsten Gillibrand
/
United States Senator
Cotton
Cruz
Work Health People
Assume
Passed
Paul
Rand
Ted
Tom
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
Sam Donaldson
/
Journalist
Agriculture
Boys
Cotton
Drainage
Enjoyed
Typical
Fish
Ditch
Farm
Pick
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After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
Carl Perkins
/
Musician
Dream
Cotton
Cotton Fields
Fields
Gold
Looks
Days
Came
Den
Every Day
Wear
Record
Piece
Wood
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There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.
Solomon Northup
/
Author
Appearance
Cotton
Expanse
Eye
Immaculate
Light
Pleasant
Purity
Snow
Wide
More
Bloom
Few
Presents
Sights
Than
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I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.
Robert Redford
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Actor
Movies
Candy
Consciousness
Cotton
Cotton Candy
Cynical
Good Way
Opening
Weekend
Time Good Movies
Time Good I Am
Stick
Weekends
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See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.
Junior Kimbrough
/
Musician
Cotton
Different
Play
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I'll tell you, my dad played and sang, and it didn't take me long to figure out that playing a guitar was a whole lot better than getting ahold of a hoe handle or chopping cotton, man.
Glen Campbell
/
Singer
Chopping
Cotton
Handle
Sang
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Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.
Richard Petty
/
Nascar Driver
Car
Cotton
Daddy
Moved
Wall
Bumped
Leading
Pass
Rear
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The thing is with these members, especially Omar and Tlaib, honestly, I feel like their hearts are filled with darkness. AOC's heart might be filled more with cotton candy and unicorns.
Lee Zeldin
/
United States Congressman
Candy
Cotton
Filled
Omar
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
B. B. King
/
Musician
Cotton
Drove
Picked
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What is clear is that in 1900, Galveston was growing fast, had already become the number one cotton port on the Gulf Coast, and was already being referred to as 'the New York of the Gulf.'
Erik Larson
/
Journalist
Cotton
Port
Gulf
Gulf Coast
Referred
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So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
Sonny Terry
/
Musician
Cotton
Curves
Learning Curve
Muddy
Player
Water
Album
Bought
Curve
Harmonica
James
Listened
Waters
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
Malcolm X
/
Human Rights Activist
Cotton
Expression
Use
Alley
Ballot
Bullet
Patch
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Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.
Johnny Cash
/
Singer-Songwriter
Music
Cotton
Might
Use
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Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.
Henry Rollins
/
Musician
War
Civil War
Cotton
Mind
Occupation
Revolutionary
Revolutionary War
Selling
Southern
Civil
Southern States
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Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.
Roger Bannister
/
Athlete
Sports
Athlete
Cotton
Mother
Education Work Science
Domestic
Mill
Mothers
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I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was so cool. It was the night before I was going on her show to sing on the 'Live Lounge.' She was so lovely.
Birdy
/
Singer
Amazing
Cool
Cotton
Night
Show
Call
Phone
Her
Literally
Lounge
Phone Call
She
Sing
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Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper or a beaten-up leather jacket or even just a cotton T-shirt.
Tamara Mellon
/
Designer
Men
Cotton
Handsome
Jeans
Leather
Leather Jackets
Smart
Tailored
Combined
Incredibly
Jacket
Suit
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
Frances Mayes
/
Poet
Cotton
Georgia
Grandfather
Ran
Rooted
Deeply
Fitzgerald
Spot
Mayor
Mill
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When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
Karin Slaughter
/
Writer
Bags
Book
Clothes
Cotton
Flour
Hours
Pride
Reading
Sewing
Six
Skills
Starving
Appreciating
Grow Up
Picking
Spent
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If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.
Mike Birbiglia
/
Comedian
Brick Wall
Candy
Cotton
Feet
Wall
Brick
Commercial
Directing
Fortress
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Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.
Isabel Wilkerson
/
Journalist
Arkansas
Cotton
Country
Illinois
Luxury
Miles
Practice
Davis
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When I first went to Kmart, I was so excited that I could bring my kind of taste to the masses. They didn't have 100 percent cotton sheets at mass market in 1987. We made those in yellow and pink and pale blue.
Martha Stewart
/
Writer
Blue
Cotton
Mass
Pale
Sheets
Taste
Yellow
Mass Market
Pink
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
J. G. Ballard
/
Novelist
Cotton
Looking Back
Puzzles
Shanghai
Imminent
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That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.
Buck Owens
/
Musician
Dream
Cold
Cotton
Driven
Potatoes
Trying
Uncomfortable
Life Me Better
Began
Better Way
Life Better Me
Pick
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I always thought Magic Kingdom was supposed to be the happiest place on Earth - where everything smells like waffle cones and cotton candy - but when I first went to Diagon Alley, I knew that was where I belonged.
Laurel Van Ness
/
Candy
Cotton
Alley
Belonged
Happiest
Smells
Waffle
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I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash.
Phil Robertson
/
Television Personality
Cotton
Trash
Blacks
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Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.
Mary C. Jones
/
Cotton
Etc
Fur
Months
Peter
Study
Toys
Began
Blocks
Coat
Extended
Feather
Rabbit
Rat
Similar
Wooden
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Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read
Kami Garcia
/
Writer
Age
War
Cotton
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Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesn't have enough money to import much of anything, either.
Richard Engel
/
Journalist
Cotton
Gold
Livestock
Poorest
Texas
Twice
Money Enough World
Almost Nothing
Enough Money
Exports
Import
Shaped
Mostly
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A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples,throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen.
Jean-Baptiste Say
/
Economist
Cotton
Europe
Pineapples
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
Beatrix Potter
/
Author
Bed
Cotton
Eye
Flower
Land
Legs
Lying
Rough
Seeing
Thank God
Again
Old
Lie
Walk
Never Take
Pass
Patch
Step
Thank
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My fashion icons are Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner. Their classic looks and clean lines should be the cornerstones of your wardrobe - white cotton shirts, black Capri pants, pencil skirts and ballerina skirts.
Marie Helvin
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Fashion Model
Audrey
Ballerina
Classic
Cotton
Grace
Hepburn
Icons
Pants
Shirts
Skirts
Wardrobe
Black White Your
Pencil
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I love a modern suit paired with a polo or cotton T-shirt... and then paired with leather sneakers, or cashmere joggers with a tailored blazer and a sleeveless puffer vest to get the ultimate informal and formal combination.
Brunello Cucinelli
/
Fashion Designer
Combination
Cotton
Formal
Leather
Polo
Sneakers
Tailored
Ultimate
Blazer
Informal
Vest
Suit
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