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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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
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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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With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.
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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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I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.
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You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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Those who say that without the monarchy Britain would be a banana republic are closing their eyes to the banana republic features which the cult of monarchy necessitates. Dazzled by the show, moreover, they may be missing other long-run tendencies towards banana-dom which it is the partial function of monarchy to obscure.
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I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
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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.'
