Men Quotes | Beyond Motive 12/19

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"God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men."

"God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men."

Little Richard, American Musician

Men, God, Ability

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"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck."

"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck."

Channing Pollock, American Actor

Men, Determination, Ability, Being

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"I don't really trust men who claim they are not interested in porn."

"I don't really trust men who claim they are not interested in porn."

Moby, American Musician

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"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."

"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."

Billy Crystal, American Comedian

Men, Women, Sex, Reason

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"Thank God we're not like America: everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women. I think men revere older women."

"Thank God we're not like America: everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women. I think men revere older women."

Francesca Annis, English Actress

Men, Women, God, Europe

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"Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth."

"Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth."

Jeremy Taylor, British Clergyman

Men, Truth, Error

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"And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same."

"And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same."

James Levine, American Musician

Men, Women, Housework, Participation

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"I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide."

"I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide."

Pierre Salinger, American Public Servant

Men, Son, Assassination, Suicide

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"Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions."

"Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions."

James Mackintosh, Scottish Judge

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"There's a great argument about how many men he actually killed. People would tell stories and then as we all know as stories get told over and over again, they get embellished, facts get changed, elaborated upon, exaggerated."

"There's a great argument about how many men he actually killed. People would tell stories and then as we all know as stories get told over and over again, they get embellished, facts get changed, elaborated upon, exaggerated."

Keith Carradine, American Actor

Men, People, Argument, Facts

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"What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone."

"What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone."

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, British Novelist

Men, Virtue, Energy, Future

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"Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?"

"Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?"

Barbra Streisand, American Actress

Men, Women, Work

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"I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together."

"I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together."

Tom Verlaine, American Musician

Men, Work, Artist, Being

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"I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper."

"I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper."

Emo Philips, American Comedian

Men, Ladies, Pain

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"Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible."

"Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible."

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

Men, Women, Want

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"I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives."

"I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives."

Jackie Kennedy, American First Lady

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"Women hear rhythm differently than men."

"Women hear rhythm differently than men."

Elvis Costello, British Musician

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"Nations, like men, have their infancy."

"Nations, like men, have their infancy."

Henry Bolingbroke, English Royalty

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"The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women."

"The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women."

Andrew Greeley, American Clergyman

Men, Women, Being

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"In nuclear war all men are cremated equal."

"In nuclear war all men are cremated equal."

Dexter Gordon, American Musician

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"I have tamed men of iron in my day, shall I not easily crush these men of butter?"

"I have tamed men of iron in my day, shall I not easily crush these men of butter?"

Ferdinand Toledo, Spanish Noble

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"Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it."

"Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it."

Isaac Barrow, English Mathematician

Men, Abhorrence, Contempt, Practice

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"But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money."

"But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money."

Little Richard, American Musician

Men, Money, Greed, Today

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"Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus."

"Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus."

Peter Ustinov, English Actor

Men, Eating, Existence, Night

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"We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human."

"We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human."

Antonin Artaud, French Dramatist

Men, Literature, Want

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"We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men."

"We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men."

William H. Macy, American Actor

Men, People, Ladies, Leading

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"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal."

"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal."

Richard Adams, English Clergyman

Men, Ideas, Thoughts, Destruction

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"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."

"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."

Abigail Adams, American First Lady

Men, Power, Husbands

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"Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip."

"Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip."

Robert Greene, English Playwright

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"I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment."

"I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment."

Donald Cargill, Scottish Clergyman

Men, Love, Religion, Holiness

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"Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant."

"Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

Men, Marriage, Kids

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"He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them."

"He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them."

Charles Kingsley, English Clergyman

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"Men are much more agressive with their advances."

"Men are much more agressive with their advances."

Dave Navarro, American Musician

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"One of the chiefs of this nation, with his young men, escorted us to the Lake of the Illinois."

"One of the chiefs of this nation, with his young men, escorted us to the Lake of the Illinois."

Jacques Marquette, French Clergyman

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"Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns."

"Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns."

Howard Staunton, English Celebrity

Men, Battle, First, Order

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"The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi."

"The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi."

Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer

Men, Difference, Will

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"The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease."

"The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease."

Marcus V. Pollio, American Architect

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"At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all."

"At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all."

Ernst Toller, German Playwright

Men, Brother, Blind, Brothers

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"Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids."

"Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids."

Bob Geldof, Irish Actor

Men, Nature, Attention, Kids

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"Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that."

"Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that."

Billy Sunday, American Clergyman

Men, Christ, Confession, Emotion

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"There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks."

"There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks."

Bob Geldof, Irish Actor

Men, Arguments, Being, Children

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"I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all."

"I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all."

Harvey Keitel, American Actor

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"The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective."

"The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective."

Elihu Root, American Lawyer

Men, War, Survival, Law

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"On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole."

"On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole."

Mercy Otis Warren, American Playwright

Men, Army, December, Evening

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"As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era."

"As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Men, Battle, Soldiers, Struggle

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"I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women."

"I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women."

Anita Hill, American Celebrity

Men, Time, Women, People

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"If I have a look around at the moment I feel great relief because finally others are entering the limelight. Men like Robert Pattinson must now play the Adonis. For me it was always a restraint, a restriction."

"If I have a look around at the moment I feel great relief because finally others are entering the limelight. Men like Robert Pattinson must now play the Adonis. For me it was always a restraint, a restriction."

Jude Law, British Actor

Men, Now, Play, Restraint

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"Washington newspaper men know everything."

"Washington newspaper men know everything."

Buffalo Bill, American Celebrity

Men, Washington

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"Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them."

"Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them."

Michael Hutchence, Australian Musician

Men, Women, Nothing

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"I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody."

"I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody."

Jennifer Beals, American Actress

Men, Women, Act, Fighting

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