Mae West Quotes
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I believed I was invincible.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
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French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
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Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.
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True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
