Mae West Quotes
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.
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When you open your heart with a quiet mind love rushes in.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.
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Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
