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"The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it."
Cesar Romero
"The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it."
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"Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so."
Helena Rubinstein
"Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so."
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"I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species."
Henry Fielding
"I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species."
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"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us."
Charles Caleb Colton
"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us."
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"Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do."
Andrea Dworkin
"Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do."
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"Each man in his way is a treasure."
Robert Falcon Scott
"Each man in his way is a treasure."
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"I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it."
Robert Mapplethorpe
"I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it."
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"Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men."
Gifford Pinchot
"Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men."
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"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own."
H. G. Wells
"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own."
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"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
Frederick Douglass
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
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"There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know."
Marguerite Young
"There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know."
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"There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture."
Thomas Couture
"There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture."
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"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."
Katherine Anne Porter
"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."
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"Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism."
George A. Moore
"Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism."
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"My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners."
Agnes Smedley
"My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners."
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
Arthur Cohn
"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children."
William Penn
"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children."
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"Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell."
Francis Parkman
"Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell."
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"The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them."
Chief Joseph
"The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them."
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"It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over."
Jerome K. Jerome
"It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over."
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"There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion."
Fredrik Bajer
"There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion."
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"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."
Mary Harris Jones
"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."
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"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
"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."
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"If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today."
John Sculley
"If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today."
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"Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk."
Jerry Costello
"Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk."
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"The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much as anyone's to make sure we make it as safe as possible up there for them."
Dave Reichert
"The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much as anyone's to make sure we make it as safe as possible up there for them."
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"Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements."
Mark Dayton
"Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements."
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"Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball."
Katarina Witt
"Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball."
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"In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave."
John James Ingalls
"In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave."
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"But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!"
Ernestine Rose
"But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!"
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"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."
George Savile
"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."
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"If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man."
Suge Knight
"If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man."
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"There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past."
Ernest Gaines
"There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past."
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"Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever."
Alan Vega
"Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever."
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"No public man can be just a little crooked."
Herbert Hoover
"No public man can be just a little crooked."
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"Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it."
Carolyn Heilbrun
"Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it."
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"I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance."
James Cash Penney
"I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance."
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"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."
Frank Moore Colby
"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."
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"To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style."
Roger Ascham
"To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style."
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"This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time."
Taylor Hackford
"This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time."
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"Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise."
Rutherford B. Hayes
"Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise."
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"Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault."
Thomas Kempis
"Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault."
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"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."
John Dewey
"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."
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"A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."
William Shenstone
"A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."
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"Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk."
Robert Benchley
"Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk."
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"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."
George Savile
"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."
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"Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it."
Albert Brooks
"Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it."
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"I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets."
Graham Chapman
"I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets."
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"Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be."
Robert Altman
"Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be."
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"A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others."
Paul Valery
"A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others."
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