Bainbridge Colby Quotes
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
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Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
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I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible.
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Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
