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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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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I was driven when I was younger. Driven at West Point where it was much more competitive in that women were competing with men on many levels, and I was driven in the military and at Harvard, both competitive environments.
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My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.
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The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.
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My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.
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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
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It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved.
