"My Pleasure is my business"

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Source : "My Pleasure Is My Business". www.imdb.com. 1975.

Xaviera Hollander

#Business Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.”

Source : Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.225, Random House
“I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.”
“A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.”
“It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.”

Source : Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.
“The margin between success and drama is fractional.”
“I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.”
“Show love! Love feels good!”
“The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!”

Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.168

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