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Sophie Tucker: From birth to...

Sophie Tucker: From birth to...

From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From...

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Pearl Bailey: A man without...

Pearl Bailey: A man without...

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his...

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Fanny Brice: Let the world...

Fanny Brice: Let the world...

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you...

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Imelda Marcos: I was no...

Imelda Marcos: I was no...

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to...

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Imelda Marcos: I did not...

Imelda Marcos: I did not...

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Source:...

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Candice Bergen: People see you...

Candice Bergen: People see you...

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have...

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Agnes George DeMille: When you perform...

Agnes George DeMille: When you perform...

When you perform . . . you are out of yourself larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic....

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Tallulah Bankhead: Dahling Congressman Boykin:...

Tallulah Bankhead: Dahling Congressman Boykin:...

Dahling Congressman Boykin: 10 AM is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the...

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Goldie Hawn: Once you can...

Goldie Hawn: Once you can...

Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If...

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Simone Signoret: If Marilyn is...

Simone Signoret: If Marilyn is...

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him...

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Coco Chanel: Material things aside,...

Coco Chanel: Material things aside,...

Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.

Source: Coco Chanel: Her...

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Sara Teasdale: I make the...

Sara Teasdale: I make the...

I make the most of all that comes,
And the least of all that goes.


Source: The...

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Vita Sackville-West: Nothing shows up...

Vita Sackville-West: Nothing shows up...

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of...

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Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

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Elizabeth II: It is easy...

Elizabeth II: It is easy...

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular...

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Elizabeth II: Work is the...

Elizabeth II: Work is the...

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Source: In Quotable...

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Jennie Jerome Churchill: You seem to...

Jennie Jerome Churchill: You seem to...

You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work,...

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Jennie Jerome Churchill: Life means work,...

Jennie Jerome Churchill: Life means work,...

Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.

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-- Jennie...

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Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back -- to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them --...

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Margaret Walker: Friends and good...

Margaret Walker: Friends and good...

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Source: Ji`bilee,...

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