S. E. Hinton Quotes
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
S. E. Hinton
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When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
Eddie Marsan
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We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
Lana Turner
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
Flavius Josephus
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
Nas
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Samuel Butler
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
Harold MacMillan
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I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
Dana Carvey
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
W. G. Sebald
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My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.
Ava DuVernay
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If this is indeed the alternative, we are in a tragic situation, compelled to choose between social righteousness and communion with God.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.
Joaquin Phoenix
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Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
S. E. Hinton
