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I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?
I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.
Never expect too much from a friend and you will never want for one.
I don't think anybody deserves to be defined totally by his enemies.
Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.
History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.
I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy.
Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.
I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
Give energy, and mental exertion will always have attraction enough.
The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.
If Donald Trump wins, it represents a rightist revolution in America.
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.
What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Sour gas is one of the most dangerous, toxic substances known to man.
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.
In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
I'm used to people commenting on my body, even women I have just met.
I'm a reporter by nature and training. I like things that make sense.
Hitchcock said he viewed actors as cattle.. but some were free range.
I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
My brother and I thought we were Donny and Marie, without the talent.
It is our job to ask the questions that make everybody uncomfortable.
For those of you haven't read the book, it's being published tomorrow
Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.