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I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.
Charlize Theron

Life, Hope, Mom

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
Oliver Stone

Beauty, Work, Beautiful

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.
James Callaghan

Moving, Short, Moment

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'
John Mayer

Dreams, Fear, Girl

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.
Gene Simmons

Life, Mother, Person

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
Frank Carson

Heart, Wife, Attack

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Ovid

Nature, Human, Eyes

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Women, Moment, Her

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.
Adele

Birthday, Famous, Living

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
Henny Youngman

Mother, Living, Knew

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Simone de Beauvoir

Society, Woman, Away

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
J. K. Rowling

Best, Someone, Talent

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Naomi Wolf

Beauty, Society, Woman

I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.
Emo Philips

Girl, Night, Her

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Eric Hoffer

Nature, Him, Her

When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.
Rush Limbaugh

Said, American, Her

I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.
Rush Limbaugh

America, Problem, Problems

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Meister Eckhart

God, Soul, Whole

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
J. D. Salinger

Girl, Nobody, Late

She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.
Paul McCartney

Rock, Remember, Enough

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
Paul McCartney

Work, Time, Mother

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?
Jennifer Aniston

Character, Start, Walk

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Job, Young, Said

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.
Henny Youngman

Love, Wife, Woman

And she was fair as is the rose in May.
Geoffrey Chaucer

May, Fair, Rose

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
Mike Krzyzewski

Life, Mom, Person

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
Charles Lamb

Mind, Book, Her

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sex, Woman, Talk

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nature, Her, Left

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
Desmond Tutu

Person, Why, Cannot

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