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Man Quotes


"Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning."


"If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself."
Man,


"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."
Man,


"There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune."


"There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage."


"When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals."


"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."


"I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!"


"It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree."


"It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man."
Man,


"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."


"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate."


"I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man."


"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."


"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."
Man,


"I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove."
Man,


"More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso."


"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."


"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."
Man,


"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard."
Man,
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