Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
Karin Slaughter -
I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
Sam Hunt -
The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
Orison Swett Marden -
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
H. P. Lovecraft -
There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
Patrick Wilson -
I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
Padma Lakshmi
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov -
During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
Bart Starr -
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford -
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken -
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
Dana Spiotta -
Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
Finley Peter Dunne
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
Rajneesh -
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.
Gary Hamel -
Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man.
Barton Gellman -
I've been going to the same barber the last few years, and we have great chats whenever I'm in the chair. He'll ask: 'How you doing? How's the training going?' Just ordinary, obvious things, but then, like you do with your barber, you start talking about personal stuff.
Adam Peaty
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My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody.
Maria Shriver -
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
Aldo Leopold -
Even if you can afford the price of college, you cannot afford a worthless degree.
Lisa Madigan -
Is it really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?
Bill Maher -
I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?
Clara Barton -
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson