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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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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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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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
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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 can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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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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A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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The world weighs on my shouldersBut what am I to do?You sometimes drive me crazyBut I worry about youI know it makes no differenceTo what you’re going throughBut I see the tip of the icebergAnd I worry about you... - Distant Early Warning (1984)
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I love anything to do with serial killers.
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I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
