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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
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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.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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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.
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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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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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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.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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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?'
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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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.
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No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
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The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.
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History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
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Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
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Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
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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.
