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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Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.
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What I find kind of annoying as a woman, especially in this society, is how people like to support people who seem like they're struggling when it comes to artists.
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I decline to accept the end of man.
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Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules. They can tell you that people in an ad will get you greater readership. They can tell you that a sentence should be this short or that long. They can tell you that body copy should be broken up for easier reading. They can give you fact after fact after fact. They are the scientists of advertising. But there's one little rub. Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
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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.
