Van Wyck Brooks Quotes
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
Edouard Manet
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
Patrick White
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
Ian McShane
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
Nas
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
Florence Kelley
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You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
Ilka Chase
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
Warren Bennis
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Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.
Madeline Zima
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Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
Yoko Ono
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As laws and the principles of religion and morality are influencing causes, I have then not only the hope, but, what you have not, the positive conviction, that society may be ameliorated and reformed.
Adolphe Quetelet
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I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.
Dana Perino
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks
