Cher Quotes

#1. I have a belief: What belongs to you, comes to you.

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#2. In my personal life I'm not very tough at all, but in my professional life, having to deal with being a woman in a man's world, I'm really tough. I never back down from a fight or an argument. I'm willing to stand there toe to toe with anyone.

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#3. You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up ... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

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#4. Would you look at that body language? Legs crossed towards each other. That is an unequivocal sex invite.

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#5. I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.

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#6. I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen.

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#7. Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit!

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#8. You know, honey, husbands come and go but I'm still Cher at the end of the day.

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#9. Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?
I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

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#10. I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

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#11. When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen, and they were very strong women.

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#12. I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

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#13. Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex.

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#14. Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with.

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#15. If a man's a good kisser, he's a great f-.

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#16. My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

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#17. Women are the architects of society

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#18. I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

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#19. I've had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now.

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#20. I kill myself for my body.

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#21. If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give up.

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#22. Gay guys like a certain kind of woman. They like a flamboyant woman that's broken. They like a balls-to-the-wall woman, motherly but not; sexual but not. Gay guys are like this: they either love you or they don't even know you're on the planet. Once you have them, you have them.

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#23. I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.

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#24. If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

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#25. Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.

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#26. I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

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#27. Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

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#28. To me marriage is for five or ten years.

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#29. For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

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#30. I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're poor, if you're any kind of minority - gay, black, Latino, anything. If you're not a rich born-again-Christian, I don't get it.

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#31. It's my body and if I want to do it like Michael Jackson, I will. My nose bothered me for a long time. Now it's smaller and I'm happy. If I wanna put my tits on my back, they're mine!

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#32. I felt impotent and out of control, which I really, really hate. I had to find sanctuary in a place where I could gather my thoughts and regain my strength.

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#33. I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck.

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#34. I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

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#35. There are lots of things that I'd like to be, and nice just doesn't seem good enough.

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#36. If grass can grow through cement, love can find you every time.

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#37. The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

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#38. I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

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#39. Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

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#40. I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

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#41. Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

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#42. I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

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#43. My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

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#44. I wear my clothes, my clothes don't wear me.

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#45. I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

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#46. Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

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#47. It's a dirty job being ridiculous, but I'll do it

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#48. I know it sounds weird, but how bad, how hard can dying be?

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#49. I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way.

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#50. I am a part of history whether people want to take it seriously or not.

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#51. I can't listen to my own voice, I don't like it. You see all your mistakes when you hear your voice. You see all your imperfections.

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#52. Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.

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#53. I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back.

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#54. There is only one value to having the look you have when you are young and no value to the look you have when you are older.

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#55. Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world.

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#56. I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been lots of battling and lots of love and it's never an easy road for us. But in the deepest recesses, I do have my mother's values.

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#57. Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

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#58. Everyone's got to have a dream ... It's not reaching your dream that counts. It's going toward them.

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#59. Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.

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#60. All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

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#61. Anyone who's a great kisser, I'm always interested in.

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#62. I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

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#63. I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.

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#64. OMG! Is this true? [Marcus Bachmann] has a Christian clinic where he de-programs gay boys & girls! I'm gonna strangle him with my Boa!

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#65. I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door.

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#66. You make good coffee ... You're a slob, but you make good coffee.

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#67. Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

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#68. I am the girl who everyone said was never going anywhere. I guess I shocked a few people.

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#69. Sometimes I feel like an old hooker.

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#70. One thing about prejudices
once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.

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#71. When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.

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#72. The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

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#73. I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

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#74. I've been been rich
I've been poor
Rich is better
I've been young
I've been old
Young is better

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#75. You see how picky I am about my shoes and they only go on my feet.

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#76. My passion lies with whatever I'm doing at the time ... I only see what is front of me.

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#77. I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

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#78. The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.

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#79. Donald Trump can't come up with a hairstyle that looks human, how can he come up with a plan to defeat ISIS.

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#80. Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

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#81. I'm from a Gypsy background!

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#82. I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

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#83. Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.

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#84. There's not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded press conference and stands at the back and winks at you so that you think, 'I can get through this.'

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#85. Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

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#86. Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships.

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#87. I want to be really special, I want to be really good. It's not enough to be famous for me. Famous is empty so quickly, it's not what people think it is. It's wonderful, but if you're famous and you feel that you're an artist inside and everyone thinks you're just a celebrity, it's really painful.

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#88. Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them - even if it's not logical.

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#89. I'm amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.

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#90. People are negative no matter what you do.

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#91. Come hell or water high you'll never see me cry this is our last good bye.

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#92. Do you believe in life after love?

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#93. I'm not old-fashioned.

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#94. It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group. It doesn't always turn out.

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#95. I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

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#96. I love ghosts; I prefer ghosts to some people.

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#97. I wouldn't mind living with someone forever. I don't really want to get married. I don't see any reason for it. And yet I'm so romantic that every time I think I meet someone I want to live with them forever and ever.

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#98. Going hungry never bothered me - it was having no clothes.

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#99. I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

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#100. What am I supposed to do, Sit around and wait for you? Well I can't do that, And there's no turning back. I need time to move on, I need love to feel strong. Cause I've got time to think it through, And maybe I'm too good for you!

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