Quotes with man-being

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  • Emily Brontë If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Andrew Johnson If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Ben Schnetzer If I audition for a job that I don't get, to be honest with you, I'd rather my friend get it. I think there also has to be an acknowledgement of the fact that, as an actor, being in employment is not the norm.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Anna Quindlen If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Brad Feld If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bruce Springsteen If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Busy Philipps If I see myself on a worst-dressed list - and I've been on many of them - I tend to have low self esteem for 24 hours. I just like to feel comfortable, and I like being excited about whatever it is I'm wearing. I hate subjecting myself to that kind of criticism!
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Betty Friedan If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class. This is female chauvinism. Friedan, Betty. 1998.
    It Changed My Life: Writings on the Womens Movement
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Don Delillo If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Bob Guccione If I were asked for a one line answer to the question' What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.
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  • Ben Wheatley If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Benjamin Clementine If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self, and I'm not going to judge my fake self.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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