Mae West Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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It takes three to make a child.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.
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I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.
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I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so you really have to follow the rules and do everything the right way to be able to accomplish that, so it was big... I had my green card for so long.
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
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I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
