Mae West Quotes
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.
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I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
