Warren Farrell Quotes

When we add the devaluation of male values to the demonizing of male sexuality, many boys feel like a pervert before they know who they are.

Warren Farrell

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• It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Help

• I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Great
  • You
  • Bond

• It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur
  • Finding

• Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • House
  • Violence

• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Man
  • Woman

• A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

  

  Quintilian
  • Virtue
  • Laugh
  • Too Much

• In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.

  

  Carey Williams
  • Speak
  • Order
  • Number

• If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Day

• I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Day
  • Rest

• I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Abuse
  • Authority
  • Respond

• Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Bad
  • Taken
  • Old

• When I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't know it was a singing movie. I didn't read the script. I go to the audition, and I'm like, 'Oh, it's a baseball movie.' But then I'm reading the lines, and I'm like, 'This doesn't seem like a baseball movie.'

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Movie
  • Reading
  • Perfect

• If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Up
  • Different
  • Think

• A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Lie
  • Liar
  • Often

• I can say that out of 365 days, I manage to do yoga on at least 300 days.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Yoga
  • Say
  • I Can

• I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women take it warm-heartedly, everything would come all right. It's all the cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• If literature (realistic) did really resemble life, it would be interminable, dreary, commonplace eating and dressing, buttoning, with here and there a patch of vividness. Life is composed of exquisite moments and the rest is shadows of them.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Rest

• This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Rain
  • Paris
  • Smells

• It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Live
  • Tedious

• So often these days eating Indian food passes for spirituality. I don't meditate, I don't pray, but I eat two samosa's every day.

  

  Dan Bern
  • Eating
  • Praying
  • Spirituality

• The foremost threat to Iraq's long-term stability and the broader regional equilibrium is not the Islamic State, it is Shiite militias, many backed by - and some guided by - Iran.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Long
  • Islamic

• What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which may not be unconstitutional but may pertain to our unique sense of privacy in the United States.

  

  Chris Asplen
  • United States
  • Privacy

• When we add the devaluation of male values to the demonizing of male sexuality, many boys feel like a pervert before they know who they are.

  

  Warren Farrell