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Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other

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• What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Respect
  • Band
  • Beatles

• The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Family
  • Name
  • Vote

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Age

• The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Man
  • Learn
  • Intelligent

• He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

  

  Florence King
  • Feminism
  • Travels
  • Spinsterhood

• A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Ideas

• The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Myself
  • Weird
  • Write

• I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Think

• I love creative people.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Love
  • Creative

• My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Father
  • Career
  • Choices

• One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

  

  Mae West
  • Work
  • You
  • Know

• You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Yourself

• The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Become
  • Gravity

• I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Today
  • Death
  • Illness

• I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • World
  • Friends
  • Parents

• One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

  

  Confucius
  • Women
  • Worth
  • Testicles

• When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Love
  • Steak
  • Caviar

• Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Never
  • Discouraged

• Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • Poverty
  • Obstacles

• Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Women
  • Expect