Samuel Richardson Quotes
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When I look at my body, I'm like, 'I'm a lead of a TV show?' To have a man in the business say, 'Come along just as you are,' is really an incredible thing.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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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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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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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
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I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.
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Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.
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I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.
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My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
