Inferiors Quotes - Page 17

• I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Husband, Men, Quitting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.

  Jon Landau

  Art, Men, Rocks

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• 'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely ignores his generally inferior work with the Faces.

  Jon Landau

  Cutting, Teeth, Band

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• Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

  Philip Larkin

  Children, Growing Up, Simple

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• He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

  Thomas Mann

  Suffering

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.77, Vintage

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• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  H. L. Mencken

  Courage, Fear, Men

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• I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street is unreliable. It's no more unreliable than that. You can find the truth on the street if you work at it. I don't think of the Internet or the virtual as being inherently inferior to the so-called real.

  William Gibson

  Real, Thinking, Internet

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• Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

  Marilyn French

  Humanness Is, Inferiority, Lists

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• Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

  Abu Bakr

  Eye, Humanity, Looks

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• When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Feminism, Doe, Inferiority

  "Nature of the second sex".

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• Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Inferiority, Males

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

  Steven Biko

  Made, Prelude, Black Consciousness

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• I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

  Edmund Burke

  Understanding, Planning, Observation

  Edmund Burke (1792). “Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London, Relative to that Event: In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.175

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• But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

  Jane Campion

  Responsibility, Thinking, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Literature, Advantage, Servant

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart”, p.232

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• Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sweet, Revenge, Victim

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

  Junot Diaz

  Men, People, Culture

  "Fidelity In Fiction: Junot Diaz Deconstructs A Cheater". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 11, 2012.

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• No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Positive, Respect, Giving

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Team, Believe, Winning

  "This time it's for Rio". Interview with Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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• One often has need of one inferior to himself.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Needs, Inferiority

  "Fables (Book II)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

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• The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

  Elon Musk

  Electric Motors, Cells, Energy

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

  David Ogilvy

  Rare Occasion, Tests, Fields

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Patriotism, Ambitious

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.160, 谷月社

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• The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

  Confucius

  Forgiveness, Men, Quality

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• Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?

  Ann Brashares

  My Boyfriend, Doe, Ifs

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