Young Man Quotes - Page 31

• I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

  James F. Amos

  Men, Quota, Young

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• When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

  Red Cloud

  War, Fighting, Men

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• When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Mother, Atheist, Men

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• Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

  Robert Fisk

  Men, Want, Illusion

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• I don’t have anger towards women. It’s the first script I wrote, I was really young. I got older. It’s told from an angry point-of-view. Young men are crazy strange emotional beings.

  Evan Glodell

  Crazy, Men, Emotional

  "Breakout Fest Talent: Evan Glodell Talks Bellflower" by Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. March 28, 2011.

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• I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He's as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Mean, Men, Fox News

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• I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.

  Ryan Adams

  Mistake, Men, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

  Elvis Presley

  Peace, Children, Growing Up

  Song: Into The Ghetto

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• Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

  David Bowie

  Song, Men, Voice

  Song: Song For Bob Dylan, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971

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• Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.

  Billy Joel

  Heart, Men, Hands

  Song: Angry Young Man, Album: Turnstiles, 1976

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• I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

  Randy Newman

  Men, Politics, Mud

  Song: Song for the Dead

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• Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

  Seth Gabel

  Character, Boys, Men

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• What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Men, Passionate, Body

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• I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

  Celia Imrie

  Men, Laughing, Telling The Truth

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• The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Passion, Men, Linton

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• I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.

  Sebastian Junger

  Acceptance, Men, Thinking

  "A Few Good Men". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2010.

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• God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  God, Men, Trying

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• There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.

  John Mellencamp

  Men, Rock And Roll, Hair

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• When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

  Simon Newcomb

  Prayer, Men, Knives

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

  Danny Pudi

  Football, Running, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.

  Billy Joel

  Education, Mistake, Heart

  Song: Angry Young Man

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• Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.

  Michael Polanyi

  Men, Body, Doe

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• Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

  John Redwood

  Men, Goes On, Want

  "Redwood's date rape comments infuriate campaigners" by Will Woodward, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2007.

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• Young men keep telling me they don't 'have it all' either. And they may have a point. But if you define 'having it all' as the opportunity to have a successful career and a family, I'd say this. When a man tells his coworkers he's going to have a child, no one asks him how he'll manage or if he'll be coming back to work.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Children, Successful, Opportunity

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• It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.

  Peter Shaffer

  Girl, Horse, Sex

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