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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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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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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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
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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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The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.
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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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At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.
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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.
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The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved.
