Warren Farrell Quotes
Why did virtually every culture reward its men for enduring violence? So it would have a cadre of people available to protect it in war.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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Don't get me wrong: there are aspects of buying music online that I love. Instantly being able to hear a song the moment it crosses your mind? Where's the downside? However, I do feel for those too young to remember the thrill of going record shopping.
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These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
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Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and women in uniform - people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.
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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
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Over the years I learned that you can have it all - just not at the same time.
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Why did virtually every culture reward its men for enduring violence? So it would have a cadre of people available to protect it in war.
