“Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn’t paying attention”
Source: Mortal Danger
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Eileen Wilks 9
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Discussing Rosa, a contestant on The Wb's Superstar USA
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Found anonymously in newspaper columns from the early 1920s http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/12/31/kiss. Originally presented in dialogue format https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5219841/safety_first/: "Dorcas—”Do you ever allow a man to kiss you when you’re out motoring with him? Philippa—"Never, if a man can drive safely while kissing me he’s not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
It does not seem to have been attributed to Einstein until the 1990s (e.g. here https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.freemasonry/YILn0A-U_WM/f1Grm2akU-4J).
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“At some point when I wasn’t paying attention, comedic genocide just stopped working for me.”
Review of T. Kingfisher's Nine Goblins http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/basically-i-have-no-sense-of-humour, 2013
2010s
Context: At some point when I wasn’t paying attention, comedic genocide just stopped working for me. This is a shame because so much fantasy and SF depends on genocide as positive plot element. This trifling oddity of taste must have robbed me of hours of morally equivocal entertainment.

“He's obviously a dynamic player that you have to pay attention to when he's out there.”
Mike Sullivan, interview in Agence France-Presse staff (April 11, 2006) "NHL Rookie Ovechkin reaches 100 point milestone", Agence France-Presse.
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