Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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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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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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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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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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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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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
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'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
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This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go.
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Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
