The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.
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Related Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serve... JOE WALSH People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a me... EDDIE TRUNK I really don't think plastic surgery is a good idea. People who've had it done don't loo... ELIZA DOOLITTLE All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm l... GAL GADOT He was built like a mountain. Tall, dark haired ,silver eyed , muscular and rugged. Nathaniel Hawkin... GRACE WILLOWS I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really ... JASON ISBELL As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying w... NATASHA LYONNE I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK,... A.J. STYLES Every publisher or agent I've ever met told me the same thing - that Irish readers don't wan... ADRIAN MCKINTY I've been a married man most of my life; that's the way I like it. PIERCE BROSNAN Anybody that's ever been to Israel and to Palestine knows that you can't look at a person an... KEITH ELLISON I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to loo... RACHEL PLATTEN As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally. ERIC ROBERTS I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than wo... CAROLYN JONES Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They'... EDIE FALCO I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense... NAOMI JUDD The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas... DAVE BARRY I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man shoul... GENE SIMMONS Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Lo... BRENDON URIE I've seen pictures of myself with makeup on, and I look like those women who look like they'... CARRIE FISHER I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated ... PIERCE BROSNAN I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it do... JOSH HUTCHERSON I only hope that people understand that if I've just come from the gym or am fresh off a red-eye... CHRIS WOOD A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything. BEN FOLDS I get a little freaked out when I'm around too many redheads. I only have about one or two red-h... JESSE PLEMONS I've never owned a T-shirt. I don't like vests or sweaters or cardies with zips. I like a pr... HOWARD JACOBSON I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining ... GLORIA STEINEM I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's somet... JANE FONDA L. A. is crazy. The women all look the same now. That thing with the cheeks. Like Madonna. Who do th... SOFIA VERGARA These 'lone wolves,' people like to call them, you've got to look at them not like a lon... MARCUS LUTTRELL You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.' PAUL SHAFFER Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles. DORIS LILLY The most Wisdomful woman in the world is one, Who can think like a Woman & like a Man as well ASHISH SOPHAT I've been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places... JOHN COLTRANE Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of ... JOAN CAULFIELD To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks ... 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He was handsome in a rugged way... MALAK EL HALABI It's like Scott Wolf, I never thought he looked like Tom Cruise until somebody said it and now t... JEREMY LONDON I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are no... MACKENZIE DAVIS What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and ... JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL I'm from England, and like every other great empire who stole bits of the world, there is a pric... DON MCCULLIN It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really n... ZAC EFRON The truth is that I am a very independent person and I've always been. That probably damaged som... BRONAGH GALLAGHER You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on... DANNY MCBRIDE I spend most of my life feeling like I've been shot out of a cannon. MOLLY IVINS I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch '... J. AUGUST RICHARDS There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on t... J. COLE I consider myself almost a Californian at this point, because I've been here long enough. Obviou... REID SCOTT Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as ... HANNA ROSIN 'Cooking Lucky' is a show for guys - or girls - or really for anyone who is all thumbs in th... EDEN RIEGEL I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the ha... SHIRLEY BASSEY The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. MARK TWAIN The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf MARK TWAIN I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that wi... DAVID GEST It's really hard for men to tell other men 'I love you' without putting a 'man' ... CHANNING TATUM Tupac was a person who was all about love. I feel like that's me, too; that's who I've a... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different... VIC MORROW I can't tell you the number of people that are like, 'Has anyone ever told you you look like... GILLIAN JACOBS That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can c... ADAM CHRISTOPHER 'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. &... CHARLES R. SWINDOLL With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I ha... WILT CHAMBERLAIN Maybe we'd forgotten what socialists are meant to look and sound like. Well, now we've been ... HOWARD JACOBSON I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woma... TANIT PHOENIX And does he like blondes, as well?' Rob laughed. I had forgotten just how great a laugh he had.... SUSANNA KEARSLEY One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. ... ALLISON JANNEY The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they... GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how th... CARINE ROITFELD I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselve... MARY J. BLIGE There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a femal... MANDY BUJOLD I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to inco... JOHN FOGERTY Since the beginning of the Bush administration when we were attacked, September 11th, we've not ... SHERROD BROWN I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they'r... SAM CHILDERS When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mo... LEV YILMAZ The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time. BILLY HIGGINS I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken... ALBERT BROOKS I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can w... WHITNEY HOUSTON I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done bef... DAVID GALLAGHER I don't see people. I don't see men and women at all. When I see them, I see... their mother... JEFF BUCKLEY I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs. GARY BUSEY I have just been working with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also a mum, on a movie called 'Hysteria.... ASHLEY JENSEN I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to se... BENICIO DEL TORO I would definitely like to have a family, and whether that's with a man or a woman doesn't r... KRISTANNA LOKEN There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch ... JIMMY KIMMEL I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've b... JACK ANTONOFF I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a di... NATHAN SAWAYA I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. SAUL BELLOW An ideal reader is someone who doesn't know what on Earth you've been doing, who will look a... EDWARD CAREY If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like. MIUCCIA PRADA Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate. JANE RULE I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fi... SHARI SEBBENS Lack of etiquette and manners is a huge turn off. Men who don't behave decently are irritating. ... SHRADDHA KAPOOR I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs th... PATSY KENSIT
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If one person doesn't get the... TOM ROBBINS That's for God sure. People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. TOM ROBBINS Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for ... TOM ROBBINS Who knows how to make love stay?Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in B... TOM ROBBINS Logic only gives man what he needs...Magic gives him what he wants. TOM ROBBINS The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only ... TOM ROBBINS When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results... TOM ROBBINS To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. TOM ROBBINS The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone. TOM ROBBINS Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef TOM ROBBINS Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. TOM ROBBINS I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys... TOM ROBBINS To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w... TOM ROBBINS The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook th... TOM ROBBINS Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective. TOM ROBBINS Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ... TOM ROBBINS There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this... TOM ROBBINS Conversation between a princess and an outlaw: "If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai... TOM ROBBINS There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ... TOM ROBBINS If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve... TOM ROBBINS Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ... TOM ROBBINS But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for... TOM ROBBINS But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i... TOM ROBBINS Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with... TOM ROBBINS I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. TOM ROBBINS At the typewriter you find out who you are. TOM ROBBINS