Wyndham Lewis Quotes
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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The key thing about force protection is... if you focus too much on force protection, and you disengage yourself from the community, you're putting yourself at greater risk because you need to interact with the community in a positive way to gain the intelligence you need.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.
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There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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To find out where the origin of symmetry is would be to find out if God exists.
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There was never a shred, never a hint, never a possibility - not a remote, not a million-, not a billion-to-one possibility - I could have planted anything. Nor would I have a reason to.
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There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
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Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.
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I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.
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Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.
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I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love. Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me. I go out there and train as hard as anybody else. I have the same dreams, the same goals. It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a politician.
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We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people.
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We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing political debate and for the economy.
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Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.
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The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
