Kahlil Gibran Quotes
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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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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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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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 tend to be selfish.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.
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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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I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.
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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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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better.
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The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
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Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.
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Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and I never really accepted this idea that I'm a film actor. That's what I do. I feel like I'm a theater actor that started doing films. Most people have never seen me in a play. They're fun, though.
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My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
