Woody Allen (Allan Stewart Konigsberg) Quotes
We have to take our possessions and flee. I'm very good at that. I was the men's freestyle fleeing champion two years in a row.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
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Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.
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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
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Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be men and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.
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At some point, Dekteon saw, his own world had come close to such a religion, where women ruled and men died-but the road had taken a different turning. Now the hints of the ancient mystery remained only in songs. It was the men who were the masters. Maybe not for the better, and not for the worse, either. But all this was unimportant.
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Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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I try to do yoga once a week.
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The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.
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We have to take our possessions and flee. I'm very good at that. I was the men's freestyle fleeing champion two years in a row.
