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Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart. -- Ian Mckellen
Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life. -- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my words, your marriage will change after reading this book. -- Debby Applegate
I think it's important to have mystique. -- Joan Jett
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. -- Betty Friedan
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace. -- Garrett Morris
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood. -- Ginger Rogers
People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm probably the realest person you'll ever meet. -- Nick Cannon
There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam. -- Rahul Dravid
The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old. -- Sidney Altman
I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one. -- Ian Somerhalder
Luke James has this mystique about him that's not something you can explain; you can only experience it. He's got a whole D'Angelo feel to him as well. -- Estelle
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. -- Betty Friedan
Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry. -- Matthew Vaughn
My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood. -- Madhur Bhandarkar
I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery. -- Pixie Lott
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction. -- William Shatner
For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It's got tradition, it's got atmosphere, and it's got mystique. -- Stefan Edberg
Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he's frozen in people's minds at the age of 46, and he was handsome and personable and witty and charming. -- Robert Dallek
There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that. -- Charles Krauthammer
People always expect Hulk Hogan to be standing up straight, or to have the bandanna on, or to not have my arms covered up. If I have an extra large shirt on people go 'oh yeah you look small.' It kind of ruins the mystique. -- Hulk Hogan
In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her. -- Rachel Cusk
I like to think of myself as the people's pop star a little bit. I respect Lady Gaga so much, and I love what she does, but she has this kind of mysterious, out-of-reach thing. I'm just not that - as much as I'd love to have that sort of mystique, I think I'm kind of an open book. -- Bonnie McKee
It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation. -- Val Kilmer
You can go to Graff and buy a diamond that's flawless. You aren't going to be able to buy the same diamond at Fortunoff, but it's still a diamond you can enjoy. If fashion can allow you to have the Chanel mystique through a lipstick, then why shouldn't art allow you to have that through a sweatshirt that says 'Cremaster' on it? -- Marc Jacobs
As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none. -- Neil Young
The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms. -- Camille Paglia
A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art. -- Robert Genn
There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage. -- Bill Hunter
To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star. -- Nicole Scherzinger
Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star. -- Eli Roth
I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique. -- Alistair MacLean
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. -- Reynolds Price
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -- James Fisher
The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs -- Dave Hampton
In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual. -- Myriam Miedzian
Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act. -- Witold Gombrowicz
A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique. -- Giorgio Armani
Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money. -- Dizzy Gillespie
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' -- Bertrand Russell
I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on. -- Laurie Graham
Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far. -- Joe Morton
I think the macho mystique was far more a guiding principle in our Dad's generation than ours, the 'strong silent type' was much more common. -- James Redford
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. -- John Steinbeck
There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman -- Chrissie Wellington
Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind. -- T.R. Fehrenbach
The only way to establish any kind of mystique, is to completely shut up and never talk to anyone. And I'm contractually obligated not to shut up. -- Robert Pattinson
When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment. -- James Wolk
An Airstream is a lot like a first love: you are lured by her charm, seduced by her beauty, and once bitten, you are forever chasing after her mystique. -- Bruce Littlefield
That's kind of the mystique If you [post your outfit] on Instagram all of the time, I'm going to see a bunch of people walking around looking like Shump. -- Iman Shumpert
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. -- Betty Friedan
Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique. -- Betty Friedan
There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer there's no difference between selling airlines seats and chocolate bars. -- Mike Batt
And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs. -- Erika Slezak
I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique. -- FKA twigs
I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them. -- Joan Jett
I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique. -- George Michael
Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud. -- Joe McGinniss
I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique." -- Betty Friedan
The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique. -- Charles Derber
Walk around. If you are invisible, the mystique of the President's office may perpetuate inaccurate impressions about you or the President, to his detriment. After all, you may not be as bad as they're saying. -- Donald Rumsfeld

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