Sabine Baring-Gould Quotes

In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.

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• I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

  

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• But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'

  

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• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
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• 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.

  

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• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  

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• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

  

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• The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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• I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

  

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• I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.

  

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• I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

  

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• Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

  

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• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

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• Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

  

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

  

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• For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

  

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• Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• I'm the son of a newsman, I grew up around news, so I can understand the issue, which is that papers are losing subscribers and they're getting less and less outlets... it's a tricky thing. You're going to have to sell papers. The problem is, there's so little reporting anymore.

  

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• I felt I could become a performer who stood out, who challenged the way things were done and make it more creative and also encourage men and women to not be afraid of their sexuality.

  

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• The pay is good and I can walk to work.

  

  John F. Kennedy
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• I box every day. I have a gym built wherever I go, so I still got my gym. Every day, I try to get in there and work out the mitts.

  

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• Don't be afraid to show off who you are.

  

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• In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Men
  • Father
  • Son