Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
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Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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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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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
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When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans.
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We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Go West, young man.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.
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Man, Twin Peaks ruined me for television. I mean, how can you top a show like that.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
