Dai Vernon Quotes
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I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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Great men marry great women.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
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I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
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I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.
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In truth, men speak too much of danger.
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Look after everybody So that they are happy to see you. It is better to serve the devotee of God than to serve God himself.
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O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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Does the interiorization of media such as letters alter the ratio among our senses and change mental processes? (p. 28)
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If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!
