Whatever you want, you have the power to attain it. The man or woman who calmly and matter-of-factly accepts this pronouncement at face value will soon find himself working magical accomplishments far beyond that which he previously dreamed possible.
Vernon Howard
PowerWomanManValueFaceYou
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
Anna C. Brackett
GreatStruggleManWorldRest
I know George Burns was a very happy man.
Marlo Thomas
ManHappyKnowHappy ManVeryBurns
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
Patricia Ireland
FamilyDisciplineWifeManLawSaid
The narrative of 'man the hunter' presupposes that men provided the nutrition, invented the tools, and established social organization and communication through the hunt, and that women were just sitting by the fire waiting for evolution to drag them out by the hair in the 1960s in order to participate.
Amanda Foreman
CommunicationWomenFireMenMan
The quote-unquote 'description' of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it's about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can't deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.
Kevin Hart
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
CharacterManNothingHeElseTakes
The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'
Malcolm X
HateManMeWhiteGoingPress
I lived for 15 years in Los Angeles, and I still can't believe that the handsomest man in the world, Cary Grant, and the greatest performer in the world, Fred Astaire, and Johnny Carson, one after another - they were all in my home at different times. I celebrated my 50th birthday with them. Unforgettable.
Tony Bennett
BirthdayHomeManWorldBelieve
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
Paul Valery
ManSecretsTrueOthersMoreSecret
Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have been part of the revolution.
Holly Hunter
PowerManRevolutionLovedBeen
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
Adlai Stevenson II
ManSpaceMeComputersMoreInside
I was romantically socialized as a gay man, and now that I am, for most intents and purposes, a heterosexual woman, I have to learn how to talk to straight men, which is the scariest thing I've ever done.
Hari Nef
MenWomanManI AmLearnGay
Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a lot older than Scott. He's a very tough man, very tough agent.
Joe Torre
TimeManOrganizationToughLongHe
Bioscience and biotech offer many opportunities. The U.S. focuses on the rich man; India has rich man diseases and poor man diseases. So you have a much larger set of opportunities.
Romesh Wadhwani
ManOpportunitiesRichYouIndia
Oh, man, you won't hear me talking about the drudgery of making movies. I don't buy any of that. All those guys who made 'The Revenant,' they loved it. They wanted to make a film, and they were the happiest people around to be doing so.
Tilda Swinton
ManPeopleMeLovedDoingTalking
Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.
Gordon Ramsay
TodayCookingManGameYoungGive
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
Walter Mosley
LoveBeautyFatherArtManMe
A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.
John McCarthy
ManBookReadingSomeoneTrueWill
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
Marjane Satrapi
WorkMotherManMeWork HardBetter
A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
WomanManOutGoingLastLike
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
John W. Gardner
LifeExcellenceManSurviveFree
Ali was actually able to fool some people into thinking that Foreman was actually a white man.
Leon Gast
FoolManPeopleThinkingWhiteAble
I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
Oliver Platt
FunnyLoveSadGreatManSong
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