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I sort of enjoy doing dishes; men like tasks where when they`re done, they`re done.” – comedian Jay Leno

”(I wanted to) show that someone different could be homecoming queen.”

– April Schuldt, 17, a pregnant Eau Claire, Wis., high school student, voted the title by students but refused the crown by school officials who admitted rigging the election, on why she protested

”It`s really exciting. It`s got to be a clean foot. No ingrown toenails.”

– Madonna, on her penchant for sucking toes

”`I have got to be in bed by 9,` ” she`d say. I would have to spend the rest of the night, every night, all by myself. I`d sit in front of the television set and I`d eat. I`d snack all night long. What else was there for me to do?” – Michael Krauss, estranged husband of broadcaster Joan Lunden, on one way he says Lunden failed as a marriage partner

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”They invented fire and the wheel and they`ve been coasting on it ever since.” – Susan Dey as Wally on ”Love and War,” on the shortcomings of men Pages

”I was about to do a puppy food commercial when my eyes swept past an open dressing room-and locked on this incredible set of buns.” – TV host Kathie Lee Gifford on her first glimpse of her husband, sportscaster Frank Gifford, from her autobiography ”I Can`t Believe I Said That” (Pocket, $22)

”Donate your body to science and, abra cadaver, funeral and burial expenses disappear.” – from ”Cheap Tricks, 100s of Ways You Can Save 1,000s of Dollars” (Brier, $13.95) by Andy Dappen