You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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JANET FLANNER At the end of the day, as a grown man, I don't really care what the sexuality of the next man is... MIGUEL A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how ... LIL WAYNE Men go out with me, we break up and then they get married. And later they call me to thank me for te... JULIE DELPY Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her g... BRANDON T. JACKSON I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women te... BARBARA CARTLAND If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for... ALICE DREGER But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect ea... CHAKA KHAN The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have... ANG LEE I don't know what flirting is, really. Sometimes in women, friendliness comes across as flirting... RITA ORA I love to play women who are strong and unapologizing and kind of rough around the edges and don'... CARRIE-ANNE MOSS What you have to understand is that my thing is not glamour. I love stretch marks and C-section scar... TRACY MORGAN You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a te... MICHAEL J. FOX A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no co... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportun... OLIVIA THIRLBY What women need to understand is that men don't communicate. It's not intentional or on purp... KEVIN HART A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad m... HENRY JAMES A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad mo... HENRY JAMES Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration,... ELLA FITZGERALD I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think ... MAGGIE Q Dear men, I’ll make it clear to you. Those who tell you that ‘true love’ is never giving up so... AHIMSA MURFI Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO In France, we respect women: we don't beat them; we don't ask them to hide themselves behind... MARINE LE PEN I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don... CAMERON DIAZ The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women do... JEAN PAUL GAULTIER I think in general, people are baffled by love and what it does to them and how far they'll go t... PHILLIPA SOO A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go t... MORRIS CHESTNUT I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have... ROBERTO CAVALLI There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women... CONNIE BRITTON I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I... JACLYN SMITH I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's c... ELLEN DEGENERES Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I... DAVID WALLIAMS Life for women in rural Scotland is not like anywhere else in the world. We all live very far apart,... ROSAMUNDE PILCHER I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have... ROMAN POLANSKI You don't have to be a creative maverick to have a troubled mind. You just have to be human. The... MATT HAIG The only thing I know is that no one ever sat in a therapist's or a psychiatrist's room sayi... JAMES CORDEN As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose th... VERA WANG I don't care why they love me, as long as they love me. I think people respect me because they f... DAVID HASSELHOFF I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don't really utilize because they... CAITLYN JENNER Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no h... DONALD TRUMP No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. ... NANCY JOHNSON I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard..... ELENA KAGAN I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go thr... BUSTA RHYMES Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work.... DAKOTA FANNING What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile ... HALLE BERRY People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of... ALAN GREENSPAN Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even... CARLA GUGINO I have been a producer and director for many years, and I can say it's really difficult for wome... ADRIANA BARRAZA Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going ... LA INDIA I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brain... ADAM DRIVER It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate g... RICHELLE MEAD It's really hard for men to tell other men 'I love you' without putting a 'man' ... CHANNING TATUM Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, a... VICTORIA BECKHAM I don't really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don't. I really don... TOM BRADY Here's the thing, men have to also mature in how they see women, too. Because they need to under... JADA PINKETT SMITH The question people ask me all the time is, 'How was it playing a gay character? How was it pret... TREVANTE RHODES But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to lo... JENNIFER WEINER If you can find a group of women, any age, who are supportive and kind and love you, that's the ... KATIE LOWES I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someon... JOE NAMATH Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for t... RANBIR KAPOOR My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is g... ADAM SANDLER I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, d... AVA DUVERNAY Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is ... MARGARET MEAD I don't think I have ever thought of myself as a movie star. I think when I was about seven, I t... RUTH NEGGA I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to... WIN BUTLER What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they ha... C. Z. GUEST Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just be... ZSA ZSA GABOR Reasons... questions... what they have in common? - All get finded in the hard way. DEYTH BANGER When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th... CHLOE THURLOW Us men have the ability to tame a women with our love. As gentlemen, it is our responsibility to tre... MARIO ALVIDREZ If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your rig... KIM DOTCOM I think virginity is fine, just as I think having sex is fine. I don't really care what women do sex... JESSICA VALENTI Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can&... LORI PETTY Ladies, a man doesn't want respect, he needs it. A man does not need love. There is no where it is w... PATIENCE JOHNSON There is the love that I love but don't want to love and try to bleed out so the love that I want bu... DONNA LYNN HOPE I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there... JOE CARNAHAN As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond tha... HOPE SOLO In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their ... EARL WARREN Some women don't care what you can do for them. They care about what you could make of them in the i... SHANNON L. ALDER I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with some... JULIANNE MOORE Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn't afraid to say, 'Men get hurt too.' An... RITA ORA I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong ... MARTHA PLIMPTON If you can control a mans thinking, you dont have to worry about his actions. If you can determi... CARTER G. WOODSON I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where... LANCE BASS I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don'... RASHIDA JONES For some reason, many designers are in fashion, but they don't love women. I love women, and I f... EDGARDO OSORIO Look at me as a man who performed works musically. Who uplift people who need upliftment, mentally, ... GREGORY ISAACS I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women. CONFUCIUS These are not my works; these are just prints of the originals. Really, what we're showing here is t... ABELINA GALUSTIAN I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help t... ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, becaus... SHAKIRA
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VANESSA MAE I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but trainin... VANESSA MAE But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest t... VANESSA MAE All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person. VANESSA MAE But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult. VANESSA MAE Music is about the performance. VANESSA MAE Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all. VANESSA MAE When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an... VANESSA MAE The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the m... VANESSA MAE For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in eith... VANESSA MAE I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to... 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VANESSA LACHEY Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by tha... VANESSA LACHEY With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing ... VANESSA LACHEY It's funny because everyone says you sleep when baby sleeps or you take a nap when baby takes a ... VANESSA LACHEY I hear the Sophie Giraffe is great for teething. Another thing I really love right now is the Moby B... VANESSA LACHEY The thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free d... VANESSA LACHEY Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that ... VANESSA LACHEY I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doe... VANESSA LACHEY I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did ... 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VANESSA KERRY It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietna... VANESSA KERRY I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leade... VANESSA KERRY But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the... VANESSA KERRY I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif... VANESSA KERRY The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though... VANESSA KERRY My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up! VANESSA HUDGENS I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid! VANESSA HUDGENS I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever. VANESSA HUDGENS It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their... VANESSA HUDGENS If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't wa... VANESSA HUDGENS I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that... VANESSA HUDGENS Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it... VANESSA HUDGENS I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody do... VANESSA HUDGENS You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy. VANESSA HUDGENS Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not. VANESSA HUDGENS I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack. VANESSA HUDGENS I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like havin... VANESSA HUDGENS This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has... VANESSA HUDGENS Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half t... VANESSA HUDGENS I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by do... VANESSA HUDGENS I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky! VANESSA HUDGENS I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen. VANESSA HUDGENS Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too. VANESSA HUDGENS I'd like to go out with friends, but I train twice a day, then I go to school, and at night I go... VANESSA FERRARI I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest... VANESSA FERRARI The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great. VANESSA FERRARI At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out o... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training ... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been throug... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted pe... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn&... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the t... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care. VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every hars... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't. VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama ... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our fa... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and ... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization ... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most p... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, ... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are o... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Fl... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn'... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids ... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are ... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart. VANESSA CARLTON If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song. VANESSA CARLTON I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel... VANESSA CARLTON I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. VANESSA CARLTON I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up... VANESSA CARLTON I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are... VANESSA CARLTON Every single note on this album is there for a reason. VANESSA CARLTON But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intima... VANESSA CARLTON But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted t... VANESSA CARLTON