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Shirley Temple Black: Make-believe colors the...

Shirley Temple Black: Make-believe colors the...

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in...

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Marianne Moore: Impatience is the...

Marianne Moore: Impatience is the...

Impatience is the mark of independence,
not of bondage.


Source: In The Speaker's...

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Tina Turner: The real power...

Tina Turner: The real power...

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself -- something that's in all of...

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Oprah Winfrey: I have crossed...

Oprah Winfrey: I have crossed...

I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman and Fannie Lou Hamer and Madame C.J. Walker. ...

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Nancy Reagan: I don't think...

Nancy Reagan: I don't think...

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an...

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Phyllis Diller: Living in Hollywood...

Phyllis Diller: Living in Hollywood...

Living in Hollywood is like living in a lit cigar butt.

Source: In An Uncommon...

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Hedda Hopper: Nobody's interested in...

Hedda Hopper: Nobody's interested in...

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury...

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Hedda Hopper: Two of the...

Hedda Hopper: Two of the...

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox...

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Brigitte Bardot: I gave my...

Brigitte Bardot: I gave my...

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to...

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Barbara Stanwyck: There is a...

Barbara Stanwyck: There is a...

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

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Thelma Ritter: Nobody ever invented...

Thelma Ritter: Nobody ever invented...

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Source: Ritter Kelly when...

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Maggie Smith: One went to...

Maggie Smith: One went to...

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

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Joan Collins: Loneliness is the...

Joan Collins: Loneliness is the...

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Helena Rubinstein: Men are just...

Helena Rubinstein: Men are just...

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

Source: In The Last Word...

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Zora Neale Hurston: Research is formalized...

Zora Neale Hurston: Research is formalized...

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Source:...

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Louise A Bogan: Life and death...

Louise A Bogan: Life and death...

Life and death occur, as they must, but they are all bound up with love and hatred, in the individual bosom, and it is...

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Eliza Cook: I love it,...

Eliza Cook: I love it,...

I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?


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Sophie Tucker: Keep breathing....

Sophie Tucker: Keep breathing....

Keep breathing.

Source: Her reply, at the age of 80, when asked the secret of her...

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Miriam Makeba: People in the...

Miriam Makeba: People in the...

People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are...

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Pearl Bailey: People see God...

Pearl Bailey: People see God...

People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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