Warren Farrell Quotes
The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don't apply to awesome people like us.
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For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.
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The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
