Man Quotes
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I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.
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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Go West, young man.
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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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I love the book signings, you know, because I get to talk to real people, and a staggering number of people have said something very specific to me. "The Family Leave Law saved my family," or "Made our lives better," or, "The education aid that you provided made it possible for me to go to college." One man at 50 years of age got his college degree.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
