"Diplomats negotiate. That's what I do on my show. So I consider myself a diplomat in showbiz."

“There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.”

“He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.”

“[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.”

“The world of photography is very self-aware. Everybody is always looking around. So it's quite difficult to stand up with a megaphone and declare, "This is what I think." As a reasonably shy person, I found it difficult to do that.”

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“We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear some blues, some jazz, a little of everything. The guys in the band are great musicians. When we play, we're there for real. It's not about posing, strutting in tights, that kind of stuff. It's all about music, and I've always respected my audience that way.”

“We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.”

“I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned, because I listen to everything.”

“Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.”

Source : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Michael Teague (1981). “Mrs. L.: conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth”, Doubleday Books