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#stores

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #stores




When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something. ↗


— Ursula Andress


#am #antique #country #flea #flea markets

Just handling this ocean of different books—new and used, in and out of print, famous and forgotten—it was literature as this giant mosaic of texts and experiments and attitudes. I think it’s just very liberating to break out of a great man’s theory of history. I guess I’ve always liked working from that sense of—what would you call it?—license that the margins permit. I always just visualize myself writing books that were meant one day to be dusty, forgotten volumes being encountered by intrepid browsers in a used bookstore. It was a much less freighted way to think about trying to enter the conversation than to imagine I had to write The Great Gatsby. ↗


— Jonathan Lethem


#attitude

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them. ↗


— Ray Stannard Baker


#best #boston #especially #even #few

We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy. ↗


— Mario Batali


#because #buy #carrot #collect #customers

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course. ↗


— Larry Bird


#conclusion #course #day #directions #discard

Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York. ↗


— Giada De Laurentiis


#always #angeles #became #big #door

I wanted stores that would feel like a comfortable room in my apartment, cozy and colorful and different. ↗


— Tory Burch


#colorful #comfortable #cozy #different #feel

The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000. ↗


— Jim Cantalupo


#compared #europe #good #got #like






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