"Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone."
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"Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there."
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"I'm not an actress, I'm a personality."
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"A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms."
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"It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success."
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"Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret."
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"America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul."
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"I, personally, liked the legend."
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"When you're dead, you're dead. That's it."
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"[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered."
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"Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being."
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"I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now."
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"Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you."
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"Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't."
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"Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless."
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"Habit: Often mistaken for love."
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"Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring."
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"Where have all the flowers gone"
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"I never ever took my career seriously."
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"Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers."
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