Warren Farrell Quotes
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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Why can't I just eat my waffle?
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.
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I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
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What vital U.S. interest is imperiled in who comes to power in Podgorica, Montenegro? Why cannot Europe handle this problem in its own back yard?
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You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.
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The little that we doIs but half-nobly true;With our laborious hivingWhat men call treasure, and the gods call dross,Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving,Only secure in every one's conniving,A long account of nothings paid with loss.
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Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
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Thanks to former President George W. Bush - remember the compassionate conservative? - I have a good name for the fundamental principle that should guide the Democratic alternative: compassionate deficit reduction.
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Hollywood has realised that we do have actors and are not just mad about song and dance.
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Helping men express feelings starts with understanding why men don’t express them.
