I don’t have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit.
ELIZABETH TAYLORYou are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.
More Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
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I’ve always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.
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The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.
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I’m not like anyone. I’m me.
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I never face the day without perfume.
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I’ve always admitted that I’m ruled by my passions.
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I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.
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I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too – for being married so many times.
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A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections.
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Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.
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I want it all quickly ’cause I don’t want God to stop and think and wonder if I’m getting more than my share.
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If it is not to make the world better what is money for?
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I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.
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I think I’m finally growing up – and about time.
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You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.
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I don’t like my voice. I don’t like the way I look. I don’t like the way I move. I don’t like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don’t like myself.
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I haven’t read any of the autobiographies about me.
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The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else’s.
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I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head – wherever the music took me. My body followed.
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I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don’t need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.
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I’ve never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I’m here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.
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I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people’s ideas and thoughts and words, because I’m very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.
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It’s amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don’t want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.
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I wear perfume even when I’m alone.
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I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it’s forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can’t ride.
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I don’t entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I’m me. God knows, I’m me.
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I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being – to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.
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