Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
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Serena Williams
Tennis Player
"I like to wear classic silhouettes and add a punch to it."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"I desire the things that will destroy me in the end."
Prince Philip
Royalty
"During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual."
Clive James
Writer
"The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB"
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"If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day."
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"A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't"
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"You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you."
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"I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit."
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"Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars."
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"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!"
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"Do you work in a strip club?"
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"Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences."
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"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."
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"So who's on drugs here?... He looks as if he's on drugs."
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"[after accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman] You are a woman, aren't you?"
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"We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!"
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"What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer."
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"Do you still throw spears at each other?"
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"It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people."
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"I am too pure for you or anyone."
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"It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on."
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"If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she isn't interested."
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"I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn."
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"British women can't cook."
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