Mae West Quotes
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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Whenever you have an animal and bring another one into the house, it's a very traumatic event. It's a story as old as bringing home a second child from the hospital, when the first child kind of goes, 'Hey, aren't I enough?'
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My beloved son Thomas did caution, when first I set out to flow this tale upon the world, that although they may not be felt like a fist or a whip, words have a power that can nevertheless cower even the largest man to gibbering tears.
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People would lambaste me or attack me, and I'd be like, "I'm being honest! I'm the one person that's being honest and sincere about what I'm doing." The rest of the world doesn't want to admit the fakery of entertainment on TV, but I love the fake. I think fake is beautiful.
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Obama hasn't shown the leadership that has allowed the center to go towards him. He's got his base now after the stimulus bill, after the latest jobs plan, but he doesn't have the center. The center is wide open.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
