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What we might see here, besides the fact that oil prices are steadier this morning, is bargain hunting, which could come in the form of window dressing. – Peter Cardillo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Several people hid in our dressing room and the killers were able to get in and killed every one of them, except for a kid who was hiding under my leather jacket. – Jesse Hughes	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Behind window-dressing rhetoric, they clearly want to sabotage the The OECD deal. – Sebastien Godinot	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I don’t relish dressing up, and find it hard to relate to the insanity, but I’m enjoying the holiday more each year because my wife demands fun. – Jonathan Huskey	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It is about getting them to discover the British lifestyle, dressing codes and etiquette. – Sabrina Cannon	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I was thinking how embarrassed I would be to have her walk around in that costume, and she was embarrassed as well, dressing up as a sexpot is not part of my vision for a happy, healthy childhood. Outfits like that not only suggest a style of dress that is inappropriate but also emphasize the notion of dressing to titillate men, rather than dressing in clothes that make you feel good about yourself. – Diane Murray of Wood-Ridge	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Dressing girls like grown women for Halloween communicates that they have the sexuality of adults, in the bodies of children, while little girls themselves likely have very little awareness of adult or even adolescent sexuality, or what sex is really about, the adults who are seeing them on the streets do. We are also communicating to adults that little girls are sexually appealing, and this message has tragic implications for their vulnerability to sexual abuse. – Teresa Downing-Matibag	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I arrived home at five in the morning and my mother gave me a good dressing down for being out all night -- and I still couldn't tell her. – Joan Joslin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Make your own homemade salad dressing with extra virgin olive oil or avocado oil. These oils are heart-healthy, great for your body and help absorb those precious nutrients veggies provide. – Peggy Kotsopoulos	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I've often told my mates in the England dressing room that a World Cup final or a grand slam decider was a walk in the park compared to a sudden fluctuation in interest rates on the Liffe floor because that was all about survival. – Will Greenwood	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Reebok is on the right track with the emphasis on training. It reflects the movement towards social fitness in the United States ... people are now dressing for the gym. – Matt Powell	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Total meltdown in the dressing room trying on jeans and I'm like, 'Well, Kayla, everything is not cut for everybody so you just have to find what works for you,' it's something I live with. It's something my mom lives with. She's going to have to live with it. It's just the way it is. (You) just have to find what manufacturer or designer works for you and live a healthy lifestyle and love yourself. – Dawn Larkin-Wallace	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It got so bad that I had trouble getting out of bed, getting off and on the toilet and even dressing myself. – Katie Marsh	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Today might be quiet, but at some stage, there's going to be some action, because we are at the end of the month and the end of quarter ... there will be window dressing coming, the commodities are weaker because the oil prices have slid under $60 (a barrel) and are down again today, so that's got oil and energy stocks a little bit in the doldrums. – John Kinsey	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The changes offered up by the White House prove that neither the right questions were asked nor were any lessons learned, wholesale changes are needed, but what's being put forward is nothing more than window dressing, I fear. – Duncan Hunter	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don’t know why I had that one, i was in the dressing room with an hour to go before kick off when Sir Alex Ferguson( Manchester United manager) saw Manchester United manager and made me shave Manchester United manager off. – Graham Norton	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I just got lucky that we couldn't find a theater to do all the guts of the theater and all the hallways and dressing rooms that worked, and because of that, we had to chop. – Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
People are cheering you every step of the way. And nobody judges you for dressing in costume. – Lauren Harrell	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Overall improving liquidity and likely window dressing by funds may keep equities at a higher keel till 2014 ends. – Vinod Nair	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have chosen to place a dressing that adheres to the open wound, which allows her skin to heal without having to remove the bandages to wash the wounds. – Victor Joe	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The Palestinian authority is glorifying terrorists and celebrating attacks on Jews and Israelis nearly every day. And where is the Palestinian delegation? Have they found the time to condemn these attacks? Of course not. You see, they have a very important function to attend this evening. A fashion show, the Palestinian delegation is off to a fashion show, because, after all, they are experts in dressing up and disguising the truth every day. – Ron Prosor	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing. – Harriet Beecher Stowe	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Who would have known? I was walking in a mall and between the crowd of shoppers shoving around and wandering about their business my eyes meet a familiar face. A face I haven't seen in years. Our gazes meet. We stare for mere seconds before the both of us look away pretending one hadn't seen the other and we quickly disappear into our now separate lives. But when I went home, I still had the Best Friends necklace you gave me in Elementary and the Senior ring we had in high school , stuffed in some drawer beneath clothes and books gathering dust as the years rolled by. I still have that photo album that starts with our picture as little girls dressing up as princesses to the day we held certificates with our gowns on. All through that journey we had been hand in hand from our first day of school to our first fight to prom night. From skipping class to plotting against teachers to every crush we had. Every exam we failed and every rule we broke. The times we sat together in detention and the times we never bothered showing up. All the hard times we pushed through and all the success we celebrated. Every fire alarm, birthday candle and breakup. We've been with each other through all and more until the day college split us apart. Your texts became shorter and your calls became rare. And I wonder how brutal graduation was for ripping us apart like that. Yesterday inseparable sisters, today a stranger. – Conseuquel	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits." – Paul Graham, September 2004	added by anonymous 13 years ago

What we might see here, besides the fact that oil prices are steadier this morning, is bargain hunting, which could come in the form of window dressing.

– Peter Cardillo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Several people hid in our dressing room and the killers were able to get in and killed every one of them, except for a kid who was hiding under my leather jacket.

– Jesse Hughes

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Behind window-dressing rhetoric, they clearly want to sabotage the The OECD deal.

– Sebastien Godinot

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don’t relish dressing up, and find it hard to relate to the insanity, but I’m enjoying the holiday more each year because my wife demands fun.

– Jonathan Huskey

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It is about getting them to discover the British lifestyle, dressing codes and etiquette.

– Sabrina Cannon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was thinking how embarrassed I would be to have her walk around in that costume, and she was embarrassed as well, dressing up as a sexpot is not part of my vision for a happy, healthy childhood. Outfits like that not only suggest a style of dress that is inappropriate but also emphasize the notion of dressing to titillate men, rather than dressing in clothes that make you feel good about yourself.

– Diane Murray of Wood-Ridge

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Dressing girls like grown women for Halloween communicates that they have the sexuality of adults, in the bodies of children, while little girls themselves likely have very little awareness of adult or even adolescent sexuality, or what sex is really about, the adults who are seeing them on the streets do. We are also communicating to adults that little girls are sexually appealing, and this message has tragic implications for their vulnerability to sexual abuse.

– Teresa Downing-Matibag

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I arrived home at five in the morning and my mother gave me a good dressing down for being out all night -- and I still couldn't tell her.

– Joan Joslin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Make your own homemade salad dressing with extra virgin olive oil or avocado oil. These oils are heart-healthy, great for your body and help absorb those precious nutrients veggies provide.

– Peggy Kotsopoulos

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I've often told my mates in the England dressing room that a World Cup final or a grand slam decider was a walk in the park compared to a sudden fluctuation in interest rates on the Liffe floor because that was all about survival.

– Will Greenwood

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Reebok is on the right track with the emphasis on training. It reflects the movement towards social fitness in the United States ... people are now dressing for the gym.

– Matt Powell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Total meltdown in the dressing room trying on jeans and I'm like, 'Well, Kayla, everything is not cut for everybody so you just have to find what works for you,' it's something I live with. It's something my mom lives with. She's going to have to live with it. It's just the way it is. (You) just have to find what manufacturer or designer works for you and live a healthy lifestyle and love yourself.

– Dawn Larkin-Wallace

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It got so bad that I had trouble getting out of bed, getting off and on the toilet and even dressing myself.

– Katie Marsh

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Today might be quiet, but at some stage, there's going to be some action, because we are at the end of the month and the end of quarter ... there will be window dressing coming, the commodities are weaker because the oil prices have slid under $60 (a barrel) and are down again today, so that's got oil and energy stocks a little bit in the doldrums.

– John Kinsey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The changes offered up by the White House prove that neither the right questions were asked nor were any lessons learned, wholesale changes are needed, but what's being put forward is nothing more than window dressing, I fear.

– Duncan Hunter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I don’t know why I had that one, i was in the dressing room with an hour to go before kick off when Sir Alex Ferguson( Manchester United manager) saw Manchester United manager and made me shave Manchester United manager off.

– Graham Norton

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I just got lucky that we couldn't find a theater to do all the guts of the theater and all the hallways and dressing rooms that worked, and because of that, we had to chop.

– Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

People are cheering you every step of the way. And nobody judges you for dressing in costume.

– Lauren Harrell

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Overall improving liquidity and likely window dressing by funds may keep equities at a higher keel till 2014 ends.

– Vinod Nair

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have chosen to place a dressing that adheres to the open wound, which allows her skin to heal without having to remove the bandages to wash the wounds.

– Victor Joe

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The Palestinian authority is glorifying terrorists and celebrating attacks on Jews and Israelis nearly every day. And where is the Palestinian delegation? Have they found the time to condemn these attacks? Of course not. You see, they have a very important function to attend this evening. A fashion show, the Palestinian delegation is off to a fashion show, because, after all, they are experts in dressing up and disguising the truth every day.

– Ron Prosor

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.

– Harriet Beecher Stowe

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Who would have known? I was walking in a mall and between the crowd of shoppers shoving around and wandering about their business my eyes meet a familiar face. A face I haven't seen in years. Our gazes meet. We stare for mere seconds before the both of us look away pretending one hadn't seen the other and we quickly disappear into our now separate lives. But when I went home, I still had the Best Friends necklace you gave me in Elementary and the Senior ring we had in high school , stuffed in some drawer beneath clothes and books gathering dust as the years rolled by. I still have that photo album that starts with our picture as little girls dressing up as princesses to the day we held certificates with our gowns on. All through that journey we had been hand in hand from our first day of school to our first fight to prom night. From skipping class to plotting against teachers to every crush we had. Every exam we failed and every rule we broke. The times we sat together in detention and the times we never bothered showing up. All the hard times we pushed through and all the success we celebrated. Every fire alarm, birthday candle and breakup. We've been with each other through all and more until the day college split us apart. Your texts became shorter and your calls became rare. And I wonder how brutal graduation was for ripping us apart like that. Yesterday inseparable sisters, today a stranger.

– Conseuquel

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."

– Paul Graham, September 2004

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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