Norman Mailer Quotes
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.Norman Mailer
Quotes to Explore
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Ad Reinhardt -
I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
Andy Griffith -
People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
Idries Shah -
When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.
Umar -
In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'
Anne Boleyn -
You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.
Ben Bernanke
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Talent comes with an individual name tag.
Charles Handy -
There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.
Saib Tabrizi -
When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
Karl Lagerfeld -
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Hippocrates -
We hang in there with some pretty good basketball teams. (But) there is no substitute for experience. Young teams don't win against good teams.
Rick Pitino
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Robert H. Schuller -
If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.
Confucius -
When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
Larry David -
Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.
Gary Fisher -
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman Mailer