Every one of my products - my lingerie, my perfume, and everything that I do beauty-related with regard to building my burlesque shows - is just me.


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CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
Freedom exists only with power.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Before you can do something you must first be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnes...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A useless life is an early death.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and tha...
OTTO VON BISMARCK
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK
The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken
LUDWIG VON MISES
The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you ha...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of sol...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I hav...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS
If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that u...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerful...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
JOHANN VON GOETHE