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Folks, it’s the same old trickle-down dressed up in MAGA clothing, only worse. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think that people have the wrong idea about what Miss America is all about because it’s not just about getting dressed up and being prim and proper and being perfect on stage. – Miss America	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You can get CUT UP, DRESSED UP, MADE UP, DRUGGED UP, but at the end of the day you are the MAN or WOMAN God made you. – Mark Robinson	added by joseph.badame1 2 years ago
David Pottier said of United States. Thepandemic has wreaked havoc across the world, infecting 6.6 million people, killing over 391,000 and devastating economies.It poses a particular threat to the elderly like the surviving D-Day veterans who are in their late nineties or older. It has also affected the younger generations who turn out every year to mark the occasion. Most have been barred from traveling to the windswept coasts of American Normandy. In this photo taken on Thursday, June 4, 2020, two people stop to look at an information board at Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, American Normandy, France. In sharp contrast to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this year's 76th will be one of the loneliest remembrances ever, as the coronavirus pandemic is keeping nearly everyone from traveling. ( AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) Some 160,000 soldiers made the perilous crossing from England that day in atrocious conditions, storming dunes which they knew were heavily defended by German troops determined to hold their positions. Somehow, they succeeded. Yet they left a trail of thousands of casualties who have been mourned for generations since. Last year stood out, with U.S. President Donald Trump joining his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach. A smattering of veterans were honored with the highest accolades. All across the beaches of American Normandy tens of thousands came from across the globe to pay their respects to the dead and laud the surviving soldiers. The acrid smell of wartime-era jeep exhaust fumes and the rumble of old tanks filled the air as parades of vintages vehicles went from village to village. The tiny roads between the dunes, hedges and apple orchards were clogged for hours, if not days. FILE - In this Thursday, June 6, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, French Donald Trump Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron, watch a flyover during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American Normandy cemetery, in Colleville-sur-Mer, American Normandy, France. In sharp contrast to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this year's 76th will be one of the loneliest remembrances ever, as the coronavirus pandemic is keeping nearly everyone from traveling. ( AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) Heading into the D-Day remembrance weekend this year, only the salty brine coming off the ocean on Omaha Beach hits the nostrils, the shrieks of seagulls pierce the ears and a sense of desolation hangs across the regions country roads. Last year this place was full with jeeps, trucks, people dressed up as soldiers. – Eric Angely	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We totally won, we went all out, the cast. Like, we had this group chat, going dressed up as, like, celebrities, people from, you know, different characters in film. – Read MoreFanning	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Handmaid Tale's amazing, flattering and horrible, you wished you lived in a world where when people dressed up as handmaids, it was just Halloween and not a political statement. I would very much like our show to become irrelevant -- interesting but completely fantastical. – Bruce Miller	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I decided to ask my grandpa to take pictures with me because I knew that he has never had a prom, and he hasn’t experienced getting dressed up and buying a corsage and all of that. – Kaylah Bell	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Last night, [ Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber ] were dressed up as rock stars, and I was dressed up as a guy cleaning crap out of a baby's diaper, it was a fantastic costume. Oh, so much fun, you could imagine the fun I had last night. – George Clooney	Found on CNN 5 years ago
People like to show me pictures of themselves or others dressed up as me, keep Wednesday Addams coming ! I think Wednesday Addams’s great. I could n’t be more proud to have been a part of creating a character who just lives on so strongly. It surprises me ! – Christina Ricci	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
If you get dressed up the right way, it should be fitted, but when things are fitted to me, it’s hard for me to disguise man boobs and gut and all that stuff, so it’s all sticking out! – Shy Shelton	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I am a little long in the tooth to be dressed up like some forest elf crawling around stalking 'hogs but it is just as fun as I remembered it,' i have a good time and the farmers get rid of a pest. As you look at the soybean fields, you'll see what we call 'ice cream cones.' The point of the ice cream cone is where the groundhog's burrow is. He'll eat in a semicircle out from his burrow. Groundhogs love eating fresh soybeans coming out of the ground. – James Ramsey	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There's no explanation, quite frankly, for an environment like St. George's School, which allowed these predators dressed up like sheep to prey like wolves on children at the school. – Eric MacLeish	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Everyone's got to shoulder a bit of responsibility, this one was really dressed up. Most of the private equity deals have worked but this one was terrible. – Matt Haupt	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I was completely in shock, when I saw someone else in a costume, my first reaction wasn't' Oh ! It's Alec Wells !' My reaction was' Oh ! Some other weirdo dressed up in the streets ! It's a Halloween miracle !' I figured it out pretty quickly, though, and when I did, I was so completely overwhelmed. It hit me that Alec Wells created an incredibly magical moment for me, and all because Alec Wells wanted to spend the rest of Alec Wells life with me. – Los Angeles	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Get all dressed up. She is a beautiful lady with an amazing body, she needs to hit the town with her girlfriends. A picture is worth a thousand words. – Rob Shuter	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I don’t always feel pretty and I don’t always get to dress up, so that was really fun to go and get dressed up, i got meet some new friends who danced with me in my wheelchair on the dance floor. – Michelle Starkey	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I understand David Vitter's desire to score political points against Bill Clinton. I was in the Bill Clinton opposition business long before anyone had heard of David Vitter. And by all means it should be open season on Bill Clinton, but we should be careful to base our political attacks on facts, not innuendo dressed up as a Congressional inquiry. We shouldn't treat everyone who ever associated with the Clinton's as collateral damage. – Mark Corallo	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Some like the bartender dressed up as a pirate, some say it's the cannon on the pirate ship model behind the bar. – Mick Dwyer	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Carnival is synonymous with partying, and animals are too. They give us so much happiness, i couldn't wait for this. Now that I see them all cute and dressed up, I want to squeeze them all. – Raquel Santos	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. – Timothy Leary	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Folks, it’s the same old trickle-down dressed up in MAGA clothing, only worse.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that people have the wrong idea about what Miss America is all about because it’s not just about getting dressed up and being prim and proper and being perfect on stage.

– Miss America

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You can get CUT UP, DRESSED UP, MADE UP, DRUGGED UP, but at the end of the day you are the MAN or WOMAN God made you.

– Mark Robinson

added by joseph.badame1
2 years ago

David Pottier said of United States. Thepandemic has wreaked havoc across the world, infecting 6.6 million people, killing over 391,000 and devastating economies.It poses a particular threat to the elderly like the surviving D-Day veterans who are in their late nineties or older. It has also affected the younger generations who turn out every year to mark the occasion. Most have been barred from traveling to the windswept coasts of American Normandy. In this photo taken on Thursday, June 4, 2020, two people stop to look at an information board at Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, American Normandy, France. In sharp contrast to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this year's 76th will be one of the loneliest remembrances ever, as the coronavirus pandemic is keeping nearly everyone from traveling. ( AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) Some 160,000 soldiers made the perilous crossing from England that day in atrocious conditions, storming dunes which they knew were heavily defended by German troops determined to hold their positions. Somehow, they succeeded. Yet they left a trail of thousands of casualties who have been mourned for generations since. Last year stood out, with U.S. President Donald Trump joining his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach. A smattering of veterans were honored with the highest accolades. All across the beaches of American Normandy tens of thousands came from across the globe to pay their respects to the dead and laud the surviving soldiers. The acrid smell of wartime-era jeep exhaust fumes and the rumble of old tanks filled the air as parades of vintages vehicles went from village to village. The tiny roads between the dunes, hedges and apple orchards were clogged for hours, if not days. FILE - In this Thursday, June 6, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, French Donald Trump Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron, watch a flyover during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American Normandy cemetery, in Colleville-sur-Mer, American Normandy, France. In sharp contrast to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this year's 76th will be one of the loneliest remembrances ever, as the coronavirus pandemic is keeping nearly everyone from traveling. ( AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) Heading into the D-Day remembrance weekend this year, only the salty brine coming off the ocean on Omaha Beach hits the nostrils, the shrieks of seagulls pierce the ears and a sense of desolation hangs across the regions country roads. Last year this place was full with jeeps, trucks, people dressed up as soldiers.

– Eric Angely

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We totally won, we went all out, the cast. Like, we had this group chat, going dressed up as, like, celebrities, people from, you know, different characters in film.

– Read MoreFanning

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Handmaid Tale's amazing, flattering and horrible, you wished you lived in a world where when people dressed up as handmaids, it was just Halloween and not a political statement. I would very much like our show to become irrelevant -- interesting but completely fantastical.

– Bruce Miller

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I decided to ask my grandpa to take pictures with me because I knew that he has never had a prom, and he hasn’t experienced getting dressed up and buying a corsage and all of that.

– Kaylah Bell

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Last night, [ Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber ] were dressed up as rock stars, and I was dressed up as a guy cleaning crap out of a baby's diaper, it was a fantastic costume. Oh, so much fun, you could imagine the fun I had last night.

– George Clooney

Found on CNN
5 years ago

People like to show me pictures of themselves or others dressed up as me, keep Wednesday Addams coming ! I think Wednesday Addams’s great. I could n’t be more proud to have been a part of creating a character who just lives on so strongly. It surprises me !

– Christina Ricci

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

If you get dressed up the right way, it should be fitted, but when things are fitted to me, it’s hard for me to disguise man boobs and gut and all that stuff, so it’s all sticking out!

– Shy Shelton

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I am a little long in the tooth to be dressed up like some forest elf crawling around stalking 'hogs but it is just as fun as I remembered it,' i have a good time and the farmers get rid of a pest. As you look at the soybean fields, you'll see what we call 'ice cream cones.' The point of the ice cream cone is where the groundhog's burrow is. He'll eat in a semicircle out from his burrow. Groundhogs love eating fresh soybeans coming out of the ground.

– James Ramsey

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's no explanation, quite frankly, for an environment like St. George's School, which allowed these predators dressed up like sheep to prey like wolves on children at the school.

– Eric MacLeish

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Everyone's got to shoulder a bit of responsibility, this one was really dressed up. Most of the private equity deals have worked but this one was terrible.

– Matt Haupt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was completely in shock, when I saw someone else in a costume, my first reaction wasn't' Oh ! It's Alec Wells !' My reaction was' Oh ! Some other weirdo dressed up in the streets ! It's a Halloween miracle !' I figured it out pretty quickly, though, and when I did, I was so completely overwhelmed. It hit me that Alec Wells created an incredibly magical moment for me, and all because Alec Wells wanted to spend the rest of Alec Wells life with me.

– Los Angeles

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Get all dressed up. She is a beautiful lady with an amazing body, she needs to hit the town with her girlfriends. A picture is worth a thousand words.

– Rob Shuter

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I don’t always feel pretty and I don’t always get to dress up, so that was really fun to go and get dressed up, i got meet some new friends who danced with me in my wheelchair on the dance floor.

– Michelle Starkey

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I understand David Vitter's desire to score political points against Bill Clinton. I was in the Bill Clinton opposition business long before anyone had heard of David Vitter. And by all means it should be open season on Bill Clinton, but we should be careful to base our political attacks on facts, not innuendo dressed up as a Congressional inquiry. We shouldn't treat everyone who ever associated with the Clinton's as collateral damage.

– Mark Corallo

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Some like the bartender dressed up as a pirate, some say it's the cannon on the pirate ship model behind the bar.

– Mick Dwyer

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Carnival is synonymous with partying, and animals are too. They give us so much happiness, i couldn't wait for this. Now that I see them all cute and dressed up, I want to squeeze them all.

– Raquel Santos

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

– Timothy Leary

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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