William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
Calvin Klein
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
Zooey Deschanel
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
Lactantius
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I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.
Idina Menzel
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.
Gail Carson Levine
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Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.
Lance Loud
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
Lafcadio Hearn
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
Gary Sinise
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In the case of 'Sweet Tooth,' and in the case of a lot of stuff I do, it all starts with the image. It may be something I sketch in my sketchbooks - something that reoccurs in the sketchbooks. Eventually, a character or story line starts to grow out of that.
Jeff Lemire
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I find the big bang, really quite fascinating. I mean, here you have all these highfalutin scientists and they're saying it was this gigantic explosion and everything came into perfect order. Now these are the same scientists that go around touting the second law of thermodynamics, which is entropy, which says that things move toward a state of disorganization.
Benjamin Carson
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The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.
Stanley Robert Vinton
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It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.
Barry Gibb
Bee Gees
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If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
William Makepeace Thackeray
