Mae West Quotes
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I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
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I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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The day you stop enjoying something is the day you should quit, if you can afford to.
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The greatest sin is carelessness.
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If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When the script's as good as those on 'Game of Thrones,' say, I don't think there was a single occasion where any of us thought there was a bad scene.
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The score never interested me, only the game.
