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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I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
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If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
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College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.
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I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
