Chester W. Nimitz Quotes
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
Jack Adams -
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
J. William Fulbright -
I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.
Mae Jemison -
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
Taslima Nasrin -
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. Wells -
Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
Lance Loud
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
Indra Devi -
It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
Eamon de Valera -
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.
Wanda Sykes -
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill -
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
V. S. Naipaul
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Jack Kerouac -
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
Xun Kuang -
I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.
Malin Akerman -
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
Jackson Katz -
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.
Alan Patricof -
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.
Quentin Tarantino -
When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you just see what works and what doesn't. Sometimes you do test screenings, and an audience tells you that, or sometimes you eventually just go, 'Let's cut the joke out.'
Edgar Wright -
Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.
Chester W. Nimitz