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Marya Mannes Quotes

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1904 - September 13, 1990

Topics

Money Eye Desire More Cash May

My airplanes are necessary machines, as necessary to this business as our meat slicers.

Jimmy John Liautaud

Business Meat Machines Necessary Our

Things were so unpredictable in Comey's first meeting with President-elect Trump, the former FBI director immediately took notes in his car after the interaction.

Car Meeting First Director Notes

I thought food and drink were just part of the perks of living at the White House. The next day, I got a call from his secretary saying my dad wanted to see me in the Oval Office, and when I got there, dad was waving this little pink receipt. I didn't know it came out of his salary.

Food Day Me Saying Pink Thought

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

Steven Spielberg

I Am Me Writing Trying I Can Race

I didn't think music was possible for me - it's such an up-and-down life.

Life Music Me Think Possible

If you continue to plow ahead in something that is OK, you will miss the opportunity to do something that is great.

Opportunity Great You Ahead Will OK

At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives.

Great Simple Year Easy Place First

In Hollywood, way too often, the goal for actresses is to get cast in roles as the wife or the mother or a relationship that somehow orbits around the man, whereas 'Sex And The City' had these characters where the women had their own independent stories.

Mother Women Relationship Wife Man

I do circuit training - different workouts without stopping. I like having that stamina, where I've never been too tired to put on a match or go above and beyond.

Training Tired Go Beyond Never Been

I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.

Dominic Chianese

Hope Great Man Think Play Achieve

I never jumped into anything, and I never liked being cajoled into anything. I've pretty much always done things because I wanted to do them.

Done Never Always Anything Pretty

While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Antoine Lavoisier

Work Myself Thought Language Nothing

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