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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
Actor
Diplomat
Dramatist
Journalist
Playwright
Politician
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New York City
New York
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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.
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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
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Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.
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I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
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What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
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Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
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