#hit

I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration! ↗

— Sara Blakely

#cut #feet #i #inspiration #moment

I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#i #like #looked #pair #pants

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#find #i #like #looked #them

Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#black #heart #here #i #like

I'm just like so many women - I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, 'What am I really supposed to wear under this?' So it was a frustrated consumer moment. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#consumer #frustrated #get #had #home

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#buy #came #charm #charms #i

When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit. ↗

— Paul Kantner

#before #fleetwood #fleetwood mac #front #heart

People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself. ↗

— Dr. Dre

#coming #easy #got #hit #hit records

The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#fight #friends #here #house #last

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#age #any #black #black or white #cuts