Man Quotes
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I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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No man fails who does his best.
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At the end of the day, I'm a man.
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
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Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
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In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.
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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
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An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.
