Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
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A true man hates no one.
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.
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I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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The same parents can raise a dreamy, reflective girl and a driven, competitive one-the job is not to nurse her nature but to help elicit the essential opposite: to help the dreamy one to be a little more driven, the competitive one to be a little more reflective. The one artisanal, teachable thing is outer conduct.
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My girls have been a great support to me. I come to them when I need to make a decision; they love to watch me work.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
