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“(During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage)Judge: 'Miss West, are you trying to show contempt for this court?'Mae West: 'On the contrary, your Honor, I was doin' my best to conceal it.'”
Mae West
“I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.”
Madonna
“It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.”
“When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.”
“I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit . . . which I most desired to see was the one described as 'The Boneless Wonder'.”
Winston Churchill
“Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi”
William Shakespeare
“If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.”
Rita Dove
“If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“That's hot!”
Paris Hilton
“CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, _Cogito ergo sum_ --whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: _Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum_ --"I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.”
Ambrose Bierce
