Cole Porter Quotes
What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love? Just who can solve this mystery? Why should it make a fool of me?
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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I don't mind about the boos from the audience.
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I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.
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At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.
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I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.
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I get 'The New Yorker,' and I'm usually about three issues behind. But I do catch up. The problem is that it always seems like homework, but then you start reading it and go, 'Why am I not doing this all the time? These are such great stories!' But, yeah, that stack gets so big and dense.
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What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love? Just who can solve this mystery? Why should it make a fool of me?
