James G. Frazer Quotes
Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.
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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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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
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100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
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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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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
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I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.
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There are a lot of songs about love and how it starts, whether that's realizing it yourself or coming to find it later on - but no sort of talk about the actual feelings that are created from love and passion.
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But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
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The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.
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Words, like flowers, have their colors too.
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Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.
