John Motson (John Walker Motson) Quotes
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
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I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
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The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.
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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
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What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling.
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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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'Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.
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All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.
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'When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.', (Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676). 'All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the Kingdom of Salvation take me home?', (Burton).
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Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.
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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
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Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one.
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I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
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The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
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It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man … First, Rousseau’s man, the Titan who raises himself … and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe’s man … a spectator of the world … Third Schopenhauer’s man … voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.
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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved.
