"The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs."

Etheridge, Melissa on song and singing   

"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."

Baez, Joan on song and singing   

"Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets."

Warhol, Andy on sex
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"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."

Vidal, Gore on sex
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"Sex is the last refuge of the miserable."

Crisp, Quentin on sex
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"For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts."

Brecht, Bertolt on sex
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"A Bay Area Bisexual told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires."

Allen, Woody on sex
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"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

Allen, Woody on sex
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"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."

Disney, Walt on love
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"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."

Brown, Les on love
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"I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret."

Winchell, Walter on secrets   

"Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."

Wilde, Oscar on scandal   

"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."

Moliere on scandal   

"One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age."

Wilde, Oscar on scandal   

"Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality."

Wilde, Oscar on scandal
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"There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out."

West, Mae on scandal
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"The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency."

Davis, Bette on sex
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"There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break."

Douglas, Michael on sex   

"Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself."

Vidal, Gore on sex
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"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."

Ustinov, Peter on sex
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"My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex."

Silverstone, Alicia on sex   

"What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup -- that's good in bed."

Shields, Brooke on sex   

"Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification."

Sharif, Omar on sex   

"It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set."

Paxton, Bill on sex   

"However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power."

Millet, Kate on sex   

"Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane."

Millet, Kate on sex   

"There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be."

Mailer, Norman on sex
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"That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail."

Loos, Anita on sex   

"Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody."

Heche, Anne on sex   

"Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules."

Feldman, Marty on sex
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"Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs."

Vidal, Gore on sarcasm
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"The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle."

Keitel, Harvey on struggle
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"I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin."

Allen, Fred A. on contentment
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"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your Living room by people you wouldn't have in your house."

Frost, David on vision   

"I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face."

Fox, Michael J. on vision   

"It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."

Eliot, T. S. on vision   

"Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set."

Chandler, Raymond on vision   

"So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy."

Chandler, Raymond on vision   

"TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract."

Brokaw, Tom on vision   

"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on taste