Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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BRIAN GRAZER The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those t...
FREDA ADLER The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them.
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PAUL AUSTER Why are mortals always so eager to declare things impossible, anyway? It’s not like things do or d...
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ALAN COOPER Little kids talk about the strangest things. They really do.
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STEVE ALLEN The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. T...
WAYNE DYER The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist
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GWYNETH PALTROW I wouldn't let anyone talk about it. It's one of those things you never want to talk about.
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RICHARD FEYNMAN Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN I go over there almost every day and talk to them about things that I really want to do.
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PETER SLOTERDIJK The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not sh...
JOAN DIDION It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
MURIEL SPARK Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.
BRANDON SANDERSON 'The Matrix' is a movie that is all about glamour. I could do a whole talk on 'The Matri...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic...
MICHAEL EISNER Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does n...
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LETITIA BALDRIGE Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON I do not comment on things that do not exist. There is no such a thing.
DIDYMUS MUTASA Everyone says she’s mad.’
‘How do they know?’ I asked.
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RUSKIN BOND Everything persecutes me in this world, even things that do not exist
VOLTAIRE Those who know do not talk; those who talk do not know.
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ZAC TAYLOR Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things tha...
EMINEM If you can’t do it with a 'click', it must be one of those things they call impossible to do.
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MICHAEL CONNELLY We don't talk about that. The bottom line is I don't dwell on those things.
TRENT JOHNSON It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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TORY BURCH If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to tal...
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ELISABETH ELLIOT The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and maki...
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JEANNE MOREAU Don't hesitate or talk about what you want to do. Just do it.
GBENGA AKINNAGBE It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
INGRID BETANCOURT Right now we are really not supposed to talk about that subject, you know, ... It is still an ongoin...
JESSICA LYNCH Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like hi...
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DONNIE HENDERSON I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good thin...
DAVID MORSE To paraphrase Nietzsche:
'That which doesn't kill us, sometimes makes us wish it had.
ORAN KANGAS There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.
MARIO LOPEZ It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about po...
SMILEY BLANTON I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and in...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN It's very flattering and it was nice of Sven but to say that but I have to be polite and say it's no...
PETER TAYLOR It is impossible to expect that things will improve in a short period of time at Sony, ... The compa...
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MELINDA JOHNSON Perhaps, Katrine, in a library just like this one, you will find that all the things you thought wer...
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DAVID HARRIS Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about...
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JULIA KAVANAGH A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they...
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ANTHONY STEWART HEAD I do not want to talk about it.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only sick music makes money today.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological...
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