Mae West Quotes
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.
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Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.
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My grandfather was a civil servant. He was honest, so it would be unfair to say we enjoyed the perils of richness.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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Only one chance one bullet in the gun. This is my life and I only got one, yeah. The safety’s off and I put on her. Oh stick ‘em up, stick ‘em up. Ready to shoot.
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Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
