Mae West Quotes

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

Mae West

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• Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Inspire
  • Bold
  • Timidity

• If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Doing

• When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Expectations

• I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Medical
  • Ship
  • Physician

• Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.

  

  Jackie Walorski
  • End
  • Daily
  • Disability

• We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Good
  • Silly
  • Dumb

• Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Motivated

• Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Help
  • Evil
  • Understanding

• I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Everyone
  • Restaurant

• A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • People
  • Mind
  • Think

• Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Heart
  • Weird
  • Sad

• I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Government

• The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I could work 24 hours and I wouldn't complain once because I'm happiest when I'm working.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Work
  • Working
  • Complain

• No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Women
  • Gay

• Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Opportunity
  • Mood

• Ultimately I am an employee of a corporation, and that’s weird, and does contradict some of the things I believe in. But at the same time, I have to make a living.

  

  Andy Hurley Fall Out Boy
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Weird

• Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

  

  William Beveridge
  • Causes
  • Explanation
  • Headache

• I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • Society
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.

  

  Lia Ices
  • Life
  • Art
  • Giving

• I outwit them, and then I outhit them.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Outwit
  • Outhit

• I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

  

  Mae West