Michael Gurian Quotes
Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'this is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'
Quotes to Explore
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
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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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Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
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When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
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There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.
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As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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My goal is to give young girls confidence in this world so they can be more like men in the decision-making process.
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All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.
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Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.
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Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.
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Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive.
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Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'this is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'
