Mae West Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.
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I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.
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I like my world to be calm.
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Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.
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The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
