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TEKOA MANNING [Omega Man and his creator have met with their share of controversy.] People criticize me a lot, ...... ALONZO WASHINGTON Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER As a kid, when most of my friends were into Superman and Batman, there was only one superhero who he... GAVIN O'CONNOR I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like. BRITTANY MURPHY If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man. MARAT SAFIN All we're asking for is that the school give Native American students a chance like they do their Ca... CATHERINE KIM What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. CHARLIE CHAPLIN I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more. DEYTH BANGER I never intended to cast a well-known actor. A known actor comes with baggage, and Superman as a cha... BRYAN SINGER Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Let's be realistic - 90% of superheroes are male. Personally, I prefer Superman, Batman and Spid... KAJOL You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in time... TIMOTHY DALTON I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or S... JACKIE CHAN By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to... MARINA ABRAMOVIC Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man. SUGE KNIGHT Many people like to eat sardines with their bones, which can be a good source of calcium as well as ... JUDY THOMPSON The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK He's a consummate professional and a man of very high character. When you have a man around like tha... JOHN SCHUERHOLZ A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know. DEBASISH MRIDHA I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mains... BRIAN K. VAUGHAN Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one. ARIANNA HUFFINGTON When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. STANLEY KUBRICK I think Wonder Woman is a very difficult character to crack. More difficult than Superman, who is al... DAVID S. GOYER Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are... DEYTH BANGER Life is a lot like skateboarding. LIL WAYNE What we want her to do is strengthen the partnerships between civil societies and government, You ar... JOAN BROWNE A dead heart is a dead life; keep your heart alive; let your heart beat for something unique! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play... T. J. MILLER What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price. ELSA PERETTI I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ... PAT BUCKLEY It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, ... C. JOYBELL C. Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way. EMMA WATSON But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not wan... JAMES JONES If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can... JULIANNA BAGGOTT A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD What about Myrnin?' Eve swallowed, almost choked, and Michael patted her kindly on the back. Sh... RACHEL CAINE Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules! DEYTH BANGER I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot... CARL GUSTAV JUNG How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable bill... RHYS IFANS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER I'm not sure that 'Iron Man' is a superhero movie. I think towards the end of the movie,... KEVIN FEIGE What I want to explore is Ken Jennings as Peter Parker or Clark Kent, Spider-Man or Superman -- the ... MICHAEL DAVIES People who don't know what it's like to be an African American don't understand that it's OK, ... I ... JACQUELINE WOODSON It's funny, you know, they're always telling me to be a man, take it like a man, act like a man, lik... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly... GEN. H. NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF I admire men of character, and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostl... GEN. H. NORMAN SCHWARTZKOPF I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I'm nothing, a mere shadow of all your failures, trying to run away. ROGER FLORES You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. We both know... that soon everything is going to end... ... This chat will be in the... DEYTH BANGER The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday CHRISTOPHER FUDGE 'Iron Man' was this fun, poppy thing bound to make a zillion dollars. And we were the other ... LOUIS LETERRIER Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing t... DALE CARNEGIE I do not want a player who is a perfect man and has a fantastic character. That’s the kind of guy ... JOSé MOURINHO For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
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GEORGE WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dis... MARTHA WASHINGTON The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances... MARTHA WASHINGTON I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else. MARTHA WASHINGTON Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly... WASHINGTON IRVING Everything is not black-and-white. I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, n... ISAIAH WASHINGTON There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ... GEORGE WASHINGTON War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. GEORGE WASHINGTON The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. 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MARTHA WASHINGTON Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their... WASHINGTON IRVING I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done... GEORGE WASHINGTON Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no busi... WASHINGTON IRVING It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. GEORGE WASHINGTON Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with cons... WASHINGTON IRVING I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my... DENZEL WASHINGTON They who drink beer will think beer. WASHINGTON IRVING My Mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my Mother. I attribute all my s... GEORGE WASHINGTON A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity t... WASHINGTON IRVING Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. WASHINGTON IRVING In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinio... WASHINGTON IRVING An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil ... WASHINGTON IRVING 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. GEORGE WASHINGTON The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use. WASHINGTON IRVING Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience GEORGE WASHINGTON There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveli... WASHINGTON IRVING Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone... GEORGE WASHINGTON Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. GEORGE WASHINGTON The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be suppla... WASHINGTON IRVING The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we... WASHINGTON IRVING There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. WASHINGTON IRVING It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. GEORGE WASHINGTON A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. WASHINGTON IRVING Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wis... GEORGE WASHINGTON The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern a... WASHINGTON IRVING Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. GEORGE WASHINGTON There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other... WASHINGTON IRVING Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lea... WASHINGTON IRVING I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than b... GEORGE WASHINGTON The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. WASHINGTON IRVING There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo... WASHINGTON IRVING There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo... WASHINGTON IRVING Yet, still, from either beach,
The voice of blood shall reach,
More audible than speech,
... WASHINGTON ALLSTON 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. GEORGE WASHINGTON To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. GEORGE WASHINGTON Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. GEORGE WASHINGTON