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I don't see myself in an ivory tower.
Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.
If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well.
My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.
Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.
There is great respect for Liverpool in the Ivory Coast.
A group of artists in Ivory Coast recorded a song about me.
It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa
I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.
Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.
I wash my face every night with Ivory soap, and I don't wear much makeup.
Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
Lisa Lampanelli lost 100 pounds, but that's because she was poached for ivory.
Theories, books and ideas created within ivory towers had real-world consequences.
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.
I was born in a tiny place in Ivory Coast, so being a protagonist in this life is a dream.
It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.
People need to make a stand and be clear that trading in ivory is immoral and unacceptable.
Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.
White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?
One thing I wanted to do from when I was young was buy my parents a house. I have done that in Ivory Coast.
I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.
I was waiting for something to sink my teeth into, so I was all-in to be Miss Ivory of The RTC. It was great fun too!
The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls... seem to like the idea of using colors.
In Ivory Coast it's very hard to have normal shoes, so just imagine football boots - they were considered a true luxury.
Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic.
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.
I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness.
If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.
And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.
We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.
Ivory Coast, even though I told them no at first, they still had the belief in me and still wanted me because they knew what I could do for the team.
I was a sandwich artist at Subway and can still rattle off the order of toppings. I was fired because I got meatball sauce on the ivory cutting boards.
More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler.
I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.
It can be difficult for players who are perceived to have turned their backs on England, as Wilfried Zaha has found out after deciding to play for Ivory Coast.