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"Buttons" is a Scientology term to control others and the evil twin parents have button eyes.
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Tender Buttons is obviously named after the unreadable tractatus Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (New York: Claire Marie, 1914), in which Gertrude Stein carries on and on and on, eventually coming up with this bon mot: “Startling a starving husband is not disagreeable.”
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“The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons” allows a 40 year old woman, who marries the age-appropriate love of her life, to nobly have sex with an 18 year old Brad Pitt.
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So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one five-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons?
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So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one 5-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons?
Finding the Next Winner Lucy Pawle 2010
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“Brain Buttons” This exercise helps improve blood flow to the brain to “switch on” the entire brain before a lesson begins.
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An uncontrollable excitement filled her being; her large, lustrous eyes, bright with the glow of the South, now beamed more luminously through her tears, and -- in short: Buttons felt encouraged -- and ventured nearer -- and, almost before he knew it himself, somehow or other, his arm had got round a slender waist!
The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX James De Mille
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Pussycat Dolls hit 'Buttons' - in a Santa Monica studio.
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The pair are believed to be recording with producer Polow Da Don - who wrote the Pussycat Dolls hit 'Buttons' - in a Santa Monica studio.
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And while his powers of self-restraint may be in doubt, there's precious little awry as far as Mr. Brown's taste in Producers is concerned: Da Don has honed the skills of artists as diverse as Fergie, Will Smith, Usher and Ludacris into chart-topping gold, and was also the brains behind 'Buttons' - the mega-hit single for the Pussycat Dolls.
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