Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square.
ALAN JAY LERNERIt’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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Stay close to the young… and a little rubs off.
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It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.
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Men die but an idea does not.
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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
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Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can’t a woman be like that?
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn’t sleep on Monday nights.
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We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes.
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Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
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You will follow every mountain, sea and shore, You will see from far and near a world you’ve never seen before.
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There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven’t used it for years!
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