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Ingrid Bergman: I have no...

Ingrid Bergman: I have no...

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to...

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Michelle Pfeiffer: I'm a perfectionist,...

Michelle Pfeiffer: I'm a perfectionist,...

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad -- and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the...

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Louise Brooks: Most beautiful but...

Louise Brooks: Most beautiful but...

Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't...

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Brigitte Bardot: It is sad...

Brigitte Bardot: It is sad...

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Sophia Loren: Mistakes are part...

Sophia Loren: Mistakes are part...

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Source: In Webster's...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I am an...

Whoopi Goldberg: I am an...

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Carol Burnett: Comedy is tragedy...

Carol Burnett: Comedy is tragedy...

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Source: From Charades, an internet collection of...

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Carol Burnett: Adolescence is just...

Carol Burnett: Adolescence is just...

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

Source: Phil Donahue show NBC TV 16 Oct...

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Maya Ying Lin: If you don't...

Maya Ying Lin: If you don't...

If you don't learn history accurately, how can you learn?

Source: In First She...

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Gloria Vanderbilt: . . ....

Gloria Vanderbilt: . . ....

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles,...

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Coco Chanel: Success is often...

Coco Chanel: Success is often...

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

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Diane Arbus: There's a quality...

Diane Arbus: There's a quality...

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A concept is...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A concept is...

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Source: Human Work, 1904.
-- Charlotte...

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Lena Horne: You have to...

Lena Horne: You have to...

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

Source: Lena,...

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Oprah Winfrey: Luck is a...

Oprah Winfrey: Luck is a...

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Source: In Reader's Digest,...

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Imelda Marcos: I get so...

Imelda Marcos: I get so...

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so...

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Karen Carpenter: We came out...

Karen Carpenter: We came out...

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period . . . it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make...

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Ruth Etting: Nothing else to...

Ruth Etting: Nothing else to...

Nothing else to do
but sit around and think about you
just think about you/that's all that I...

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Fanny Brice: When love is...

Fanny Brice: When love is...

When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you...

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Mary Antin: My friendships, my...

Mary Antin: My friendships, my...

My friendships, my advantages and disadvantages, my gifts, my habits, my ambitions these were the materials out of...

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