Jane Austen Quotes
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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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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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.'
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You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
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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.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They'll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition.
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We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.
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I don't know why we're losing. We'll get it right. We've just got to keep working.
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We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.
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I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
