Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling people countless things that they didn't need.


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Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely wh...
DOUGLAS JERROLD
Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for...
DOUGLAS JERROLD
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece...
DOUGLAS WILDER
It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can ...
TOM DOUGLAS
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Time is bunk.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'tr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictu...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
DOUGLAS ADAMS
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that w...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they freq...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your pe...
TOM DOUGLAS
I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mea...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish u...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Six silent people in a room got me to thinking about the voice we hear in our heads when we read, th...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.
DOUGLAS TRUMBULL
To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, ri...
TOM DOUGLAS
What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the wa...
DOUGLAS WILDER
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
DOUGLAS HURD
Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop...
DOUGLAS WOOLF
Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as...
DOUGLAS WOOLF
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people...
DOUGLAS ADAMS