Quote by Julie Burchill
Its very hard to imagine the phrase consumer society used so cheer

Its very hard to imagine the phrase consumer society used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. – Julie Burchill

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Make no mistake, most women are well aware that theyve never had it so good when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun. – Julie Burchill

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Women
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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness. – Julie Burchill

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Age
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Being a monarchist – saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another – is just as warped and strange as being a racist. – Julie Burchill

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respect
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Society
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My meaningless office job: they pay me for my body and mind, but my heart gets no paycheck and my soul pays the taxes. – Carrie Latet, 2006

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Society

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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Society

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating. – D.H. Lawrence

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Society

When youve paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society. – Tom Vilsack

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Society

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Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. – Nina Bawden

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Love doesnt grow on trees like apples in Eden – its something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. – Joyce Cary

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It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And its getting to the point now where its like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when Im done. – Picabo Street

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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time – Leonard Bernstein

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