Charles Willeford Quotes
There is something about a man with a beard I cannot stand. No particular reason for it. Prejudice, I suppose. I feel the same way about cats.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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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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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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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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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
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But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
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Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.
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I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
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There is something about a man with a beard I cannot stand. No particular reason for it. Prejudice, I suppose. I feel the same way about cats.
