“I swear, I have absolutely no idea what women are thinking. I don't get it, OK? I, I, I admit, I, I'm not getting the signals. I am not getting it! Women, they're so subtle, their little...everything they do is subtle...men are not subtle, we are obvious. Women know what men want, men know what men want, what do we want? We want women, that's it!...It's the only thing we know for sure, it really is: we want women. How do we get them? Oh, we don't know 'bout that, we don't know.”
— Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld, Season 1: The Seinfeld Chronicles

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Segment from Jerry's nightclub act.

Tagged: Men, Women, Dating, Subtlety
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