Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes
Because you are a great lord, you think you are a great genius! . . . Nobility, wealth ... You went to the trouble of being born—nothing more! For the rest—a very ordinary man!
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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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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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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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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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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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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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
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I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it.
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Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!
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Because you are a great lord, you think you are a great genius! . . . Nobility, wealth ... You went to the trouble of being born—nothing more! For the rest—a very ordinary man!
