Vita Sackville-West Quotes
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
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Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.
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All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.
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Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.
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Life is too short not to experiment.
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I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of raw carrots.
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Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.
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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
