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Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

Shirley MacLaine

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Shirley MacLaine
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 24
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...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.
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People think I'm nuts.
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Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.
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bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does.
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I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a problem.
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The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.
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I'm very aware, but I'm very naïve. When you are really naïve and expecting safety and expecting the best, you don't feel you're taking risks. You can get smacked a little, but usually it works out pretty well. I would say that, as much as you can instill your open-minded naivety, if you're basically open minded, then you can do damn near anything.
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When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.
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You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.
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On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of my life. Do you know how many pictures that is? Not just this life I have pictures from 13,000 lives.
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I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.
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I don't do like diva trips and stuff.
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It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.
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In terms of my life, I guess I want to share whatever I've learned really, which is basically one thing: know yourself, look for yourself, know what to look for, cherish it, be honest, be authentic, even if it hurts your feelings. That's not bad.
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When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.
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Why do people have to love people anyway?
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If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.
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The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.
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We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.
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You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.
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