Bernard Manning Quotes

I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.

Bernard Manning

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• When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • House
  • You

• Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Different
  • Art
  • Death

• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • Become
  • Interview

• Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Space
  • End
  • Clean

• It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Good
  • Couple

• The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Children
  • Break
  • Jewelry

• Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Career
  • Choices

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Love
  • Anger
  • Bitterness

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Football
  • Army
  • Living

• Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Air

• Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Small

• Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • You
  • Education
  • Tired

• I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Man
  • Strength
  • Percent

• I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Up
  • Together
  • Growing

• It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Chance
  • Understand
  • Boat

• Foreign students... big part of our economy.

  

  John Hickenlooper

• If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Men
  • War
  • Rules

• I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.

  

  Bernard Manning
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bisexual