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I am the original Material Girl.
Eartha Kitt

Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more.
Jock Sturges

Avoid, Sin, Red

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.
Jock Sturges

Body, Less, Avoid

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.
Emma Roberts

Attention, Ways, Press

You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.
Jane Campion

I am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be.
Amy Lee

Become, Band, Mine

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.
Matt Groening

Done, Seen, Television

My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.
Jimmy Wales

Single, Person, Free

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.
George Clooney

Makes, Worth, Might

As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
Fergie

Love, Heart, Child

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.
Joe Baca

Freedom, Government, Speech

Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name.
Rob Sheffield

Best, Girl, Him

I came back to my original wife. I came back to her after I made a few boo-boos in my life. Coming back to her was good for me, good for her and good for the children.
Jean Claude Van Damme

Life, Good, Wife

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.
Jason Mraz

Family, Made, Leaving

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.
Jaron Lanier

Technology, Lost, Contact

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
Lascelles Abercrombie

Time, Living, Sometimes

What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?
Ritchie Blackmore

Change, Good, Why

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
Carl Hiaasen

Great, Book, Writing

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
Alain Rene Le Sage

Pride, Sins, Conceit

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.
Guy Pearce

Trying, Constantly

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.
Kathryn Bigelow

Heart, Choose, Fresh

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
Etta James

Artists, Songs, Tribute

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.
Steve Yzerman

Great, Perfect, Play

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
Andy Goldsworthy

Once, Possible, Stone

I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.
Paula Abdul

Film, Star, Disney

Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.
Annette Funicello

Family, Today, Children

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.
Michel Gondry

Sometimes, Mainstream, Resist

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.
Joe Eszterhas

Power, Heart, Writing

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Barbara Tuchman

Book, Thoughts, Put

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.
Steve Lacy

Until, Seems, Anybody

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