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Lana Turner: A gentleman is...

Lana Turner: A gentleman is...

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Source: In 2,715 One-Line Quotations for...

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Mae West: I generally avoid...

Mae West: I generally avoid...

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Source: 'My Little...

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Katharine Hepburn: Everyone thought I...

Katharine Hepburn: Everyone thought I...

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always...

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Carol Burnett: [This is to...

Carol Burnett: [This is to...

[This is to explain] just how your mom turned out to be the kind of hairpin she is.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Books succeed, and...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Books succeed, and...

Books succeed, and lives fail.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Gloria Swanson: I am big....

Gloria Swanson: I am big....

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Source: As Norma Desmond, in Sunset...

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Angela Davis: What this country...

Angela Davis: What this country...

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Source: Speech, 1967.
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Maya Angelou: The thorn from...

Maya Angelou: The thorn from...

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more...

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Anna Jameson: A man may...

Anna Jameson: A man may...

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

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Kate Chopin: The bird that...

Kate Chopin: The bird that...

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong...

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Susan Sontag: All. . ....

Susan Sontag: All. . ....

All. . . forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually...

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Rebecca West: Before a war...

Rebecca West: Before a war...

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy. But after a war it seems more like...

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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: My father always...

Alice Roosevelt Longworth: My father always...

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every...

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Julia Child: It's so beautifully...

Julia Child: It's so beautifully...

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate -- you know someone's fingers have been all over...

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Harriet Van Horne: Cooking is like...

Harriet Van Horne: Cooking is like...

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Source:...

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Pauline Kael: In this country...

Pauline Kael: In this country...

In this country we encourage creativity among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as...

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Marie de Sevigne: It is sometimes...

Marie de Sevigne: It is sometimes...

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.
(Il faut glisser sur les pense?s et ne...

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Gail Sheehy: If we don't...

Gail Sheehy: If we don't...

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

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Germaine Greer: Energy is the...

Germaine Greer: Energy is the...

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt...

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