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- Nov 07, 2020
Shoes Quotes
On empathy, style, and the freedom of going barefoot.
This page gathers quotes about shoes in both literal and figurative senses—empathizing with someone you wouldn't want to trade places with, favorite designer pairs, and a farming childhood spent comfortably barefoot. See our look quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soles of the best writers, a professor once told me, are worn down to holes. This is an incomplete measure, but the image of a writer grinding his or her shoes against curbs and cobblestones stuck with me. The story is always out there, the details around the corner or down the alley.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think being Shaquille O'Neal would be the most amazing thing. There's nothing I would have done differently in his life. Everything he's done I think is pretty spot on, even, like, the bad rap videos, the shoes, the movies, everything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a storyteller, I've always been fascinated with the idea of recreating this notion of choices in fiction. My dream was to put the audience in the shoes of the main protagonists, let them make their own decisions, and by doing so, let them tell their own stories.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seasons are really annoying. You get a really great pair of shoes or a beautiful pair of boots, and then you try to get them again four months later, and they say, 'Oh no, that was last season.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evil is evil, and it doesn't discriminate by dress. Some evil people in the headlines wear designer suits and wing-tipped shoes.
- Nov 07, 2020