"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that."

Barrie, Sir James M. on achievement
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day."

Carson, Johnny on success   

"Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor."

Cusack, John on acting and actors   

"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes."

Cosby, Bill on music
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"That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked."

Cosby, Bill on marriage
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"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest."

Cory, Irwin on marriage   

"I bring to my life a certain amount of mess."

Coppola, Francis Ford on adversity
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"Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late."

Coolidge, Rita on opportunity
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"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."

Connolly, Cyril on suicide
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"Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out."

Connolly, Cyril on obesity   

"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."

Connolly, Cyril on women
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"The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

Connolly, Cyril on marriage
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"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving."

Connolly, Cyril on love
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"I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him."

Connery, Sean on hatred   

"According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. I've divorced people for that."

Collins, Joan on adultery   

"The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them."

Collins, Jackie on criticism   

"My weakness is wearing too much leopard print."

Collins, Jackie on fashion   

"A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love."

Cohen, Leonard on body
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"I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face."

Cohen, Leonard on scholars and scholarship
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"Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh."

Cohen, Leonard on injury
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"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant."

Costello, Elvis on vocation   

"I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!"

Costner, Kevin on fashion   

"I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish."

Crystal, Billy on comfort   

"Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes."

Cruise, Tom on speech
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"Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends."

Cruise, Tom on ending
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"I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated."

Crowe, Russell on commitment   

"That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting."

Cross, Amanda on quotations   

"I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this."

Crosby, David on guilt   

"The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent."

Crisp, Quentin on poverty and the poor   

"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"

Crisp, Quentin on atheism
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"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."

Crisp, Quentin on life
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"To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody."

Crisp, Quentin on knowledge   

"If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family."

Crisp, Quentin on family
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"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

Crawford, Joan on love
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"Work is more fun than fun."

Coward, Noel on work
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"I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age -- which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday."

Coward, Noel on taxes and taxation   

"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."

Coward, Noel on music   

"I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again."

Coward, Noel on marriage
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"My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself."

Coward, Noel on importance
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