"There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl."

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“I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes—and six months later you have to start all over again.”

“I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”

“Never floss with a stranger.”

“Before we make love, my husband takes a pain killer.”

“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”

“I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.”

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"Senator Grace and I cannot do this alone. We need the help of every one of you, of every Filipino!"

— Francis Escudero

Politics1969

#beauty

"And there needs to be something in your life of a goddess of Nemesis which pulls you down when you get too high and pulls you up when you feel the sense of inadequacy and that is what religion at its …"

— Martin Luther King

Social Activism1929–1968

#life

"Ever since I was a little boy, I would study composition. And it was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky that influenced me the most. If you take an album like Nutcracker Suite, every song is killer, every one. …"

— Michael Jackson

Music1942–2007

#music