Rory Charles Graham (Rag'n'Bone Man) Quotes
It's a weird thing, beards now. I'll be in east London, and lads come up to me: 'Yo man, what beard oil do you use?' I'm like, 'I don't know what you're talking about.' It's just laziness.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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A true man hates no one.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
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India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
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It's a weird thing, beards now. I'll be in east London, and lads come up to me: 'Yo man, what beard oil do you use?' I'm like, 'I don't know what you're talking about.' It's just laziness.
