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I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Trapped, like a trap in a trap.
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.
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