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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Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.
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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
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In L.A., I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans.
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I attended college in Los Angeles and wore black pumps to work every day.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
