Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Quotes
But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
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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.
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Suffering turns men towards their creator.
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Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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Men tend to be selfish.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
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If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.
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I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he's got some kind of dance that he planned. To me, I just want to change the channel.
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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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I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
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Women can learn from men and improve their 'chic.' A man wouldn't think of wearing a tight shoe or one that didn't harmonize with his suit.
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There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.
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Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.
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But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.
