Mae West Quotes
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.
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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
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We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.
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I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
