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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘dating’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you’re dating or seeing have something special and it’s a more special occasion.” -Ben Savage
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“Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik’s Cube literally with his eyes closed because it’s just an algorithm.” -Ashley Rickards
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“I don’t talk about who I’m dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.” -Bridget Fonda
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“I’m the one who’s dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I’m probably not the first person on their list – the weird, quirky, funny girl.” -Whitney Cummings
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“I don’t really talk about my personal life. It’s a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you’re dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.” -Tracee Ellis Ross
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“I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I’m embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it.” -Torrie Wilson
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“I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.” -Judith Krantz
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“I’m a bad dater – I’m just not good at it. It’s so weird dating in this town. It’s like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, ‘Is she dating anyone?’” -Jules Asner
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“The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.” -Davidson Black
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“I tried to tell them about the dating process because I’m single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!” -Andie MacDowell
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“My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in ’86 and she graduated in ’88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff.” -Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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“I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating.” -Jerry O’Connell
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“You’re talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I’ve never really been a dater.” -Stockard Channing
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“I am dating, but it is hard to find someone quick enough and funny enough. I am quite demanding.” -Anne Robinson
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“Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.” -Andre Dubus III
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“In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn’t encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what’s best in my life, so if you’re dating someone who doesn’t want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn’t be dating them.” -Veronica…
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“I’m a fan of horrors. I love the ones that make you jump. My girlfriend hates it. I’ve been dating her for one-and-a-half years and I’m crazy about her, but she’s terrified of horror films. Not the cute ‘Will you hold me?’ way, but she’s weeping. With ‘House of Wax,’ we’ll be sleeping and I’ll…
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“Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?” -Chris Messina
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“I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, ‘Leave (Get Out),’ I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating.” -JoJo
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“Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.” -Rachelle Lefevre
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“It’s weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It’s a part of the business that grosses me out. I’m always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they’re also famous, and they can’t live their life.” -Andy Samberg
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“My daughter’s mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I’m most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.” -Tyson Gay
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“Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it’s one thing. I don’t have a lot of time to think about dating.” -Chris Pine
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“I can’t wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.” -David Gallagher
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“I’ve been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21… younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I’ve always been kind of young for my age.” -Dana Delany
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“I’m enjoying dating. I’m single, though, I’m not in a relationship.” -Matt Czuchry
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“I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.” -George Andrew Olah
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“My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!” -Meg Cabot
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“I’m not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.” -Gloria Allred
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“So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn’t work out, I’d take that as failing.” -Gavin DeGraw
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“You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he’d be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn’t serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.” -Priscilla…
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“Dating is different when you get older. You’re not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.” -Toni Braxton
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“So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: ’10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He’s a lawyer.’ He didn’t know what was going on. He didn’t even know me. They called him, and he came down and…
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“Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.” -Jason Lee
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“I’ve always gone out with much younger guys. But I rushed into relationships before really getting to know the person. What would come up as a warning sign within the first two weeks of dating would usually be the exact reason the relationship would end!” -Carrie Ann Inaba
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“It’s ironic, really. Guys should be excited that I got Kristen Bell. If Brad Pitt gets Kristen Bell, it’s like, ‘Well, of course he did.’ With me, it should be, ‘Oh good, a normal-looking guy got her. Maybe I’ll get me a Kristen Bell.’ But guys hate my guts for always dating women I have…
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“Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian – I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don’t think I’m that type.” -Jeremy Lin
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“I think feminism’s a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There’s nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody’s confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.” -Zosia Mamet
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“The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.” -Steve Albini
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“Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, ‘He’s very odd, but he likes to cook. He’s creepy, but he makes good pancakes!’” -Zoe Lister-Jones
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“The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98 but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.” -Simon Greenleaf
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“I’m opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It’s funny – my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I’m really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.” -Olivia Wilde
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“I heard on public radio recently, there’s a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It’s in Vermont. I don’t think I’d be very…
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“It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.” -Rosario Dawson
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“I’ve been in plenty of situations where someone I’m dating had more time for a console than me.” -Josie Maran
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“Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.” -Lorna Luft
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“I’m often dating people, but I don’t say it because you sort of know it won’t last long.” -Graham Norton
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“It’s just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.” -Bridget Hall
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“I was dating my first boyfriend in high school for a long time, and we broke up before prom. I hadn’t met anyone else that I really wanted to go with, and my friends have always been amazing. So I went with my friends and got a million photos with them!” -Shay Mitchell
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“The Google algorithm was a significant development. I’ve had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.” -Tim Berners-Lee
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“I’ve had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I’m dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn’t know, though.” -Julie Bowen
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“I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don’t have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.” -John Stamos
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“Dating co-stars is natural. When you’re working with someone, it’s habit.” -Rachel Bilson
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“We had two rules growing up in my house: If you’re going to take a shower, do it with whomever you’re dating so you don’t waste water and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody’s going to want one.” -Moon Unit Zappa
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“If I’m with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I’m with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you’re supposed to have a…
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“Evolution is unobservable. It’s based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to ‘one side is all we will let you hear.’” -Ray Comfort
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“I ain’t scared to do another dating show, but I ain’t really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I’ve done enough dating on television. I’m ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.” -Flavor Flav
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“Like many of you, I’ve always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series ‘Dark Shadows,’ which I followed avidly as a kid.” -Bill Condon
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“I like the idea of dating, but I’m not dating anyone exclusively, particularly right now. It’s hard to be in a relationship unless you’re ready to go public with it. So it’s a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don’t want that part of my life to be tabloid…
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“I wish I was dating one of the ladies in ‘Bollywood Hero.’ They’re gorgeous. Any of them.” -Chris Kattan
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“Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.” -Tina Fey
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“I’m very open to dating and finding a guy.” -Kristin Cavallari
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“Are you kidding? I’m a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.” -Rebecca Romijn
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“I’m much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they’re dating or what clothes they’re wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.” -Ben Affleck
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“I’m not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there’s something nice about a guy pulling out a girl’s chair and opening the door for her, even if it’s just in the beginning.” -Lauren Conrad
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“My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don’t want to put myself in the position where I’m in a monogamous relationship right now. I’m not dating just one person. ‘Sex and the City’ changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.” -Lindsay…
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“Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I’ve been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I’m just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around…
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“I’ve had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me, and the other was the same age, and neither worked out. I know people still think of me as one of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends, and he of course was much older than me, but that was a…
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“The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They’ll pick eye color and hair color, all the way down to what she does for a living, what school she went to. Their list can be extremely long. But at the end of the day, dating is dating, because they’re human beings.” -Patti Stanger
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“Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.” -Zac Efron
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“I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad’s sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.” -George Clooney
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“No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu’s mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.” -Maurice Gibb
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“I don’t know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships.” -Ginnifer Goodwin
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“After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.” -Melinda Gates
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“I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw ‘my people’ portrayed accurately.” -Paul Feig
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“Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It’s really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.” -Brooke Burke
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“At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn’t really see fighting.” -Kato Kaelin
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“I’m not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.” -Vanessa Hudgens
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“Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It’s just that constant strangeness. I think it’s a very real thing.” -Jason Schwartzman
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“I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I’m dating or what drugs I’m on or what club I went to.” -Shia LaBeouf
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“I’m honest about the journey I’ve been on, so I definitely don’t take dating lightly anymore.” -Demi Lovato
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“Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.” -Martha Beck
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“I can’t even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It’s a nightmare.” -John Mayer
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“When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, ‘This is just dumb.’” -Louis C. K.
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“You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don’t go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.” -Daisy Fuentes
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“I can’t imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What’s a home and family for if it’s not the center of one’s life?” -Loretta Young
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“When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.” -Emma Watson
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“I’m not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.” -Lena Dunham
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“I wouldn’t tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.” -Kristen Stewart
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“I’m friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn’t just get into it. I don’t think you can be friends until you’re cool with them dating someone else. That’s when you know.” -Rashida Jones
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“I don’t really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don’t call the guy until he calls you. I don’t think it’s like he’s got to do this and that’s the rule.” -Ashley Tisdale
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“I prefer ordinary girls – you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn’t mean we are dating.” -Leonardo DiCaprio
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“At this year’s Open, I’ll have five boyfriends.” -Anna Kournikova
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“I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I’d be really happy. But without the brother thing.” -Patricia Velasquez
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“I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that’s where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.” -Spalding Gray
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“I don’t know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest – it doesn’t exist.” -Richard Gere
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“It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.” -James Levine
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“Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It’s about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?” -Neil LaBute
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“It’s always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.” -Luke Wilson
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“I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.” -Daphne Zuniga
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“I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It’s needing people who understand your work schedule.” -Jennifer Love Hewitt
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“It’s weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.” -Carrot Top
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“What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked. Then, senior year, someone got gum in her hair when we were dancing. She had to get one of the chaperones to take her to the office and cut up her hair. I felt really bad for her, but…
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“Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you’re going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.” -Usher
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“I’m not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who’d owned a lunch box with my picture on it.” -Shaun Cassidy
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“The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.” -Clint Eastwood
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“Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.” -Doug Coupland
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“My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.” -Jenny McCarthy
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“Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.” -Conan O’Brien
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“I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.” -Pink
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“Which is, I’m an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.” -Garry Shandling
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“I’ve had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I’d seen enough train wrecks.” -Taylor Dayne
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“If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.” -Ben Kingsley
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“I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word ‘YOU’ and I just put the letter ‘U’.” -Kelly Osbourne
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“I didn’t have a financial need, and I wasn’t very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.” -Candice Bergen
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“My boyfriend calls me ‘princess’, but I think of myself more along the lines of ‘monkey’ and ‘retard’.” -Alicia Silverstone
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“We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it’s a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.” -Betty Dodson
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“Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn’t touch me. It was infuriating to them.” -Mark Hoppus
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“I love being a single mom. But it’s definitely different when you’re dating.” -Brooke Burns
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“I always say now that I’m in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.” -Hugh Hefner
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“Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.” -Marianne Faithfull
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“My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.” -Jay London
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“You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.” -Victoria Pratt
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“Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting – a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That’s the exception to the rule.” -Minnie Driver
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“Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn’t care about anything but boyfriends.” -Madonna Ciccone
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“I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being ‘someone’s girlfriend’, and now I am happy being single.” -Penelope Cruz
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“Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don’t love.” -Jack Nicholson
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“I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.” -Orlando Bloom
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“People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they’d much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.” -Albert Ellis
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“You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a ‘goddess circle’.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I’d get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I’ve since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.” -Matthew Perry
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“If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.” -Joe Rogan
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“If you don’t have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don’t go looking for someone. When it’s right, they’ll come to you.” -Carmen Electra
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“I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.” -Adam Sandler
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“My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn’t want him to.” -Rita Rudner
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“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.” -Jim Bishop
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“I can’t even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.” -Gilbert Gottfried
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“If you’re a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don’t have a choice.” -Jimmy Fallon
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“I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn’t have girlfriends, and really I wasn’t a very social boy.” -Charles Kuralt
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“I don’t understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I’m interested in someone, and I don’t want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I’m not interested in that person.” -Britney Spears
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“Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that’s why I don’t have a boyfriend.” -Lucy Liu
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“Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.” -Kim Cattrall
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“Right now, I’m as single as a slice of American cheese.” -Nick Cannon
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“I’ve been dating since I was fifteen. I’m exhausted. Where is he?” -Kristin Davis
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“I don’t have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who’d be mad at me for saying that.” -Mitch Hedberg
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“You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” -Keith Sweat
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“Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.” -Wayne Dyer
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“Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.” -Orson Welles
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“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” -Hugh Mackay
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“I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.” -Taylor Swift
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“I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I’m attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He’s usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it’s strange.” -Megan Fox
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“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.” -Natalie Portman
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“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” -Henry Winkler
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“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.” -Scott Adams
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“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.” -Greta Scacchi
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“However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.” -Francesca Annis
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“Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
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“Right now I’m pretty single… My career is my boyfriend.” -Christina Aguilera
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“You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I’m older and wiser and I think I’d make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.” -Stevie Nicks
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“Save a boyfriend for a rainy day – and another, in case it doesn’t rain.” -Mae West
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“Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.” -Keanu Reeves
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