Promiscuous Quotes

• People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Sexy, Running, Men

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• A promiscuous person is a person who is getting more sex than you are.

  Victor Lownes

  Witty, Sex, Persons

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• I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.

  Dusty Springfield

  Promiscuity

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• Tons of women would love to have sex with me. I hate the image of black men as promiscuous and unable to control themselves sexually. I don't like that image.

  Will Smith

  Sex, Hate, Men

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• 'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

  Jacki Weaver

  Choices, Facts, Choosy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are punished around their sexuality and perceived to be immoral if they practice a certain kind of promiscuous sexuality. It's a very different thing still if you're a guy, if you're a woman and you're straight.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Thinking, Practice, Giving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

  John Milton

  Reading, Men, Evil

  1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

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• You can be very promiscuous in your research, but not in your trading.

  William Eckhardt

  Research, Trading

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• The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Causes, Moral, Intense

  1988 'Is Nothing Sacred? The Ethics of Television', in Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fall.

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• And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.

  Ihara Saikaku

  Taken, Night, Lakes

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• It's been liberating to be able to play someone who's a bada– or promiscuous, because that's the opposite of who I am … It's like a drug.

  Jessica Alba

  Who I Am, Opposites, Play

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• Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dating, Suffering, Encounters

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• No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Suicide, Men, Decision

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• Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

  Bernard Crick

  Democracy, World, Affair

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.56, University of Chicago Press

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• Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

  Alvin Toffler

  Giving, Birth, Mates

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• Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

  Joseph Addison

  War, Lying, Lost

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “Cato. Dialogue on medals. Essay on Virgil's Georgies. Poemata. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond; an opera. Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus”, p.57

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• I don't go out much. I'm also not promiscuous. If I went out with everyone the press said I did, I'd never have time to write or sing.

  Mariah Carey

  Writing, Said, Ifs

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• Contrary to popular belief, I'm not promiscuous. There does seem to be a mistaken belief out there that I am sexually available somehow — which is not to say that I'm not open-minded about sex.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Sex, Doe, Belief

  "Johansson: 'I'm Not Promiscuous'" by wenn.com, October 11, 2006.

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• Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Quality, Depth, Culture

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• Men might be chastised for being promiscuous, but I think they're more likely to be given a pass, due to a "men will be men" attitude that still prevails in the Western world. They don't usually experience anything like the virulent shaming and verbal abuse that women who are sexually adventurous are sometimes prone to experiencing.

  Christine Sneed

  Attitude, Thinking, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Even the promiscuous feel pain.

  Warren Beatty

  Hurt, Pain, Feels

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• Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.88, Da Capo Press

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• I was never one who was squeamish about nudity. I don't believe in being promiscuous about it, but several times I thought of going to a nudist colony.

  Bettie Page

  Believe, Nudists, Nudity

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 05, 2013

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• Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Lying, Book, Library

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• The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Church, Different

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