"Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love."

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Source : "Let's Do It" (song) (1954). These words were added to the original 1928 song, replacing lines including "Chinks do it, Japs do it" because Porter realized that those lyrics were offensive.

Cole Porter

#I Love You Quotes #Falling In Love Quotes #Bird Quotes

“The lord giveth and most women piss it away. Perhaps this is why they lack the equipment to aim.”
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
“For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.”
“I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.”
“There is nothing wrong with you just because you haven't yet met people who share your interests or outlook on life. Unless you are doing something unhealthy or destructive, take pride in your beliefs, passions, and values. Know that you will eventually meet people who will appreciate you for being you.”
“Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.”
“Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are very different from each other, and moral virtue has to do with motivation, not cognition. Moral virtue requires a human level of intelligence, but it doesn't require that one be an intelligent human.”
“I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction - beyond that.”

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