Warren Farrell Quotes

It is often said that women are a civilizing balance to the innately warlike male. By taking care of the killing for women it could be said that men civilized women. When survival was the issue, men killing to protect what women bore was the male form of nurturance.

Warren Farrell

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• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

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• I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

  

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• Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?

  

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• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

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• No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.

  

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• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
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• We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

  

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• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
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• I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  

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• People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.

  

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• Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

  

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  • People
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• There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

  

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• We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

  

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  • War
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• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

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  • Home
  • Play
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• We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

  

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• I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.

  

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• People always think actors are really 'out there,' so you wouldn't have me pegged as one, but I knew pretty early on it was what I wanted to do, and I think that's pretty lucky.

  

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• I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

  

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  • Parents
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• God fixed my heart, so I could bless yours.

  

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• Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice ...

  

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• There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is... We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

  

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• It is often said that women are a civilizing balance to the innately warlike male. By taking care of the killing for women it could be said that men civilized women. When survival was the issue, men killing to protect what women bore was the male form of nurturance.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Balance