Yagyu Munenori Quotes
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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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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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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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
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Even if I wore a hat and a wig, you can always tell it's me.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
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To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.
