Quotes 3521 till 3540 of 3710.
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With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
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With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.
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With Kickstarter, people are patrons of the arts. With Mosaic, people can be clean-energy investors like Warren Buffett.
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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone.
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With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.
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With upper- and middle-class lawns, there's more hidden, whereas with working-class or poor lawns, there's more out to see. It just sits right out there. Very honest. Like the people.
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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard
Tinselworm -
Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.
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Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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