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Mae West Quotes

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: August 17, 1893 - November 22, 1980

Topics

Opportunity Woman Man You Ring Give

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Truth Children People Sometimes Say

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

Death People You Bad Security Never

If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.

Bird Dress Me Crazy Husband Thought

The United States faces structural employment problems because of the long-term effects of globalization and technology. This was only exacerbated by the Great Recession.

Technology Great Problems Employment

There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Work Police Computers Gun Help Way

I'm a bit of a grandma: I don't really understand the Twitter and the Instagram.

Understand Instagram Twitter Really

Singing is all about certain inflection on certain lines. I used to listen to tapes of everybody from Michael Jackson and Prince to Earth, Wind and Fire. They would have different vocal inflections. If the line insinuated pain, they would cringe on some lines.

Fire Pain Wind Singing Earth Listen

There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too.

Beach Day Hat Dinner Place Run

I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.

Respect Someone Want Bored

I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a set of topics is important.

Together Value Think Important Real

I do feel like, especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, 'Oh my God, you aren't making your own clothes? You didn't make your own bread? And you also don't have a career, and you don't look unbelievable, and you have 5 pounds on your frame? Where is your book that you haven't published yet?'

God Book Feel Clothes You Look

I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired.

Phone Numbers Company Everyone Get

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