Quotes with courtier-like

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  • Gloria Steinem A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Derek Jarman All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • John Hay All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
    John Hay
    American politician (1838 - 1905)
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  • Bryan Ferry And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Jean Arp Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
    Jean Arp
    German-French sculptor, painter, poet (1886 - 1966)
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  • Akhenaton As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Alfred E. Smith Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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  • Agnes Smedley But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Pablo Picasso Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Alighieri Dante Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Andre Breton Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Pablo Picasso Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Walt Disney I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Donald Trump I don't do it for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals.
    Trump: The Art of the Deal (2009) inl.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Graham Greene I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Bryce Harper I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Andy Rooney I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • William Shakespeare I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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