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"I cheated at school. I remember on one occasion I wrote some history dates in pen on my leg. So when there was a question like 'What year did that happen?', I'd lift my skirt up and have a look."
"The chances of someone who looks like Jesus having pot raises steadily, to a point. If the guy is on a cross you may have the wrong guy."
"I wonder if there were any goths in gothic times. They're like: You look completely appropriate. You don't look stupid or lonely at all."
"If you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you."
"I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other.""
"Look at Nelson Mandela. Why did people want to follow him? He's a lousy speaker. If he hadn't got all the other things, you wouldn't spend time listening to him. But people actually don't listen to what he's saying, in a way. They are listening to him because he has communicated that he is ready to put his life on the line."
"Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident."
"All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am."
"But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary."
"People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'"
"My husband says I look like a Q-tip."
"I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it."
"I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside."
"People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am."
"I'm in showbiz. I look at my boobs like they're show horses or show dogs. You've got to keep them groomed."
"You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone."
"I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes."
"Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!"
"When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'"
"There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks]."
