"It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life."

-- Thomas Mann

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Way Quotes

“Great individuals and great performances build a team, which produces brilliant performances.”
“I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.”
“I want to win, I want to win everything. If I have a chance to win, why not?”

Source : "Ovechkin fashions himself a designer" by Paul Hunter, The Toronto Star, p. S02, June 12, 2008.
“I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.”

Source : Marilyn Wallace (1992). “So Shall You Reap”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group
“Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.”
“If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.”
“The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found in reason, which is something that is shared by all of mankind. This was one of the roots of the Enlightenment and its concept of universal human rights.”

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