Apostolos Doxiadis Quotes
Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
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...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!
