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"It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need."
"Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed."
"To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life."
"After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll."
"The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman."
"I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex."
"Everybody lies about sex."
"Everyone went out and bought Sex, it was sold out in two seconds. And then everybody slagged me off. That, to me is a statement of the hypocrisy of the world that we live in. The fact that everybody is so interested in sex but won't admit it."
"You may think you're in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn't love the man before, you won't love him after. Like him, maybe, but not love him."
"It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself."
"If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal."
"Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age."
"I don't find the same things funny that many other people seem to find funny. I don't really respond to sex jokes and things like that, and some of my friends look at me and go, "Come on, Nic, that was my best joke. Why aren't you laughing?" I go, "I really don't know why I'm not laughing. I'm sort of out of sync with it." So I'd have to find something that was really about weird human behavior for me to laugh."
"I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love."
"Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren."
"We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born into the stories told of each of these."
"Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV"
"One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them."
"The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance."
"Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs."
