Man Quotes
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk - I don't think of an old man who was my grandfather.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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J. R. Smith's incredible, man, just incredible off the bench.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
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A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
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Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
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It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.
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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
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Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
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And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all...
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
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Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
