One Man Quotes - Page 39

• I had very little support from any feminist organization. But fortunately my post-marital lover, who had bailed out of academia over political in-fighting, was a one-man support team. He was the one who pushed me to write.

  Betty Dodson

  Team, Writing, Fighting

  "Betty Dodson’s Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• I worked in a schizophrenic home when I was an undergrad. You learned to be jaded to the crazy things they would say to you, but there was one man that I always gave crazy respect to, even though he would say the exact same thing to me every single day.

  Matt de la Pena

  Crazy, Home, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I know that I want to do my one-man show eventually, and that would talk about my life and about how football inspires me. I would love to do Shakespeare again, but in London this time. I'm pretty much open to receive the right opportunities with the right people.

  Eddie George

  Football, Opportunity, Men

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I actually think the only way that you can beat Trump is recognizing that he is a one- man wrecking machine fueled by this cult personality. So you have to attack him on those bases. None of these ideological positioning issues matter for [Donald] Trump.

  Bernie Sanders

  Men, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I had a 90-minute one-man show. I performed it and my life just exploded. Everything - my life just changed. Every writer, director, producer, studio head, movie star - they all wanted it. It was the hottest property since 'Rocky.'

  Chazz Palminteri

  Stars, Men, Directors

  "Chazz Palminteri on 'A Bronx Tale,' Keyser Söze, and Stallone's career advice". Interview with Ryan Vlastelica, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• I also think the reason I like to do a one-man show is you're not limited into the confines of a role. There's so many facets to actors and I think it's important to push those limits, as far as what a person can do.

  Jason Graae

  Men, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

  Anna Brackett

  Struggle, Men, Answers

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• Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Giving, Slavery

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.313, Library of Alexandria

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• If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.

  James Longstreet

  War, Men, Enough

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• A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

  John Jay Chapman

  Inspirational, Education, Men

  John Jay Chapman (1968). “The selected writings of John Jay Chapman”

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• When one man of popularity can let the world know the problem, he might lose a few dollars himself. He might lose his life. But he's helping millions.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, World, Might

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.

  Alfred Smee

  Success, Knowledge, Science

  Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.128

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• From millions of men . . . one man must step forward who with apodictic force will form granite principles from the wavering idea-world of the broad masses and take up the struggle for their sole correctness, until from the shifting waves of a fre thought-world there will arise a brazen cliff of solid unity in faith and will.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Men, Ideas

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2/6d with one man and a cine camera, were amazing to watch because he was such a great talker.

  Jonathan Meades

  Men, Television, Cameras

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When I was a kid I got mad enough to want to kill somebody but as you travel the world and I'm struggling with a freedom fight against nations, you can't get enough hate in you to be mad at one man just because it's a boxing match. Never. Even Floyd Paterson, who condemned my Islamic religion and didn't want to call me Muhammad Ali and said I should've gone to the army and I should be in jail.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hate, Islamic, Struggle

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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