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.'
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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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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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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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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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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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Like the Paris riots, the struggle over French history raises grave questions for Europe. How does the presence of 20 million Muslims who come from nations where men believe their grandfathers were exploited and persecuted by Europeans advance the unity and security of Europe? How is Europe made stronger by such 'diversity'?
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During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
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Could man be drunk for everWith liquor, love, or fights,Lief should I rouse at morningsAnd lief lie down of nights.But men at whiles are soberAnd think by fits and starts,And if they think, they fastenTheir hands upon their hearts.
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The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
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Such and so various are the tastes of men.
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Morality, if present, should not be relied on because it will be trumped by self interest in most circumstances.
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It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.
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Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.
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I'm pretty handy in the kitchen. But my wife's the real genius.
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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.'
