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.
Ed Miliband -
The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
Ian Thorpe -
You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
Foster Friess -
As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
Barry McGee -
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.
Laura Hillenbrand -
I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
Nasim Pedrad
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Patricia Marx -
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
Najib Mikati -
For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
Karan Johar -
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.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Viggo Mortensen -
There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
Ralph Marston -
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.
Rainbow Rowell -
Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
Patrick Ewing -
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.
Dakota Fanning -
Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
Dan Rather
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I'm the anti-rock star. I'm happy just to have a bottle of water.
Ben Kweller -
There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.
Thomas Sowell -
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
Ferid Murad -
My cartoon strips in college strived to have the Schulzian mix of surrealism and Charlie Brown angst. A bit of that combo shows up in 'Up.'
Bob Peterson -
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Mae West