Gene Edwards Quotes
Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.
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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
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I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.
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I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.
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What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.
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It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.
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They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
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I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.
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I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.
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A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
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College, for me, was more about wrestling than actually going to classes.
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Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.
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There's room for Spike Lee's movies; there's room for Tyler Perry's movies. There's room for classics with an all black cast. There's room for all of it as long as we don't try to make any one piece define us as a race.
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Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.
