Diogenes Quotes
Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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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.
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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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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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
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The first time I crawled into the octagon, I just felt like an animal, you know? Like a creature, like I wasn't quite human.
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He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
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Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"
