Orson Welles Quotes
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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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
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
Walter Reisch
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
Gary Lineker
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
Edmond de Goncourt
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
Action Bronson
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
Karl Jaspers
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
Omar N. Bradley
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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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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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.
Lady Gaga
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
J. B. Smoove
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
Abbe Pierre
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
Samuel Butler
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl Warren
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
Salmon P. Chase
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A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
Paul Auster
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So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.
Patricia Hewitt
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
Vicki Lawrence
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I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.
Victoria Pratt
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I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.
Flann O'Brien
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles