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The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.
Sara Blakely
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Sara Blakely
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 27
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
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If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.
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