Warren Farrell Quotes
Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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The Senate has sent President Obama a spending bill that gives the government enough money to keep going for two weeks. Our Congress has the financial planning skills of a college sophomore.
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.
