Rod McKuen
Related BILLY CORGAN ZIG ZIGLAR MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT NORBERT WIENER JOSé N. HARRIS When the Hun is poor and down, he's the humblest man in town, But once he climbs all holds the rod, ... JOSEPH CATS EDDIE VEDDER There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one... ALAN PATON MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. CONOR MCGREGOR WILFORD BRIMLEY DWAYNE JOHNSON JOHN TYLER I want to be remembered for having a great love for my fellow man. Because, you know, I do. BILLY CASPER AVI ISIDORE DUCASSE LAUTREAMONT Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only belie... COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT JOHN LEGEND To me, the choir is my service to the Lord and fellow man, ... and you can't put a price tag on that... CHRIS GREEN I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get p... EUGENE LEVY ERYKAH BADU DAVE GROHL ALBER ELBAZ I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now ... TAYLOR HAWKINS MARY ELLEN MARK The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and... BERT WILLIAMS FRANK ABAGNALE C. JOYBELL C. I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is... LA INDIA If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness ... GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE GEORGE CRABBE CHARLI XCX MICHAEL CAINE ANGELINA JOLIE LEAH LABELLE RITA RUDNER BOOKER T. WASHINGTON BRUCE WILLIS If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my so... JAMES IHA JUNIOR SEAU KURT RUSSELL I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. BIBLE If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other ... WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't conv... PRITAM CHAKRABORTY I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be... LARA STONE BRANDON STANTON The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Ma... AL GREEN I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father tim... FLAVOR FLAV CARLOS CASTANEDA GREGG ALLMAN ROY LICHTENSTEIN During the day I would move my body to the rhythm that only I could hear. I would try and connect wi... THE HIPPIE JUNE CARTER CASH I want a man I can keep for myself. I wouldn't ever share my man with anyone else. KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN DESMOND MORRIS DESMOND MORRIS I consider my morals a blessing and even though the unmoral try to manipulate them into a curse. I f... ALEXANDER JACKSON I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of... JILL SOBULE On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. An... FEIST PAULA COLE PATTI DAVIS The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. Fro... C. J. MAHANEY I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my s... AYUMI HAMASAKI JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN CHRISTOPHER LEE Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm t... VANITY EVA MENDES D. H. LAWRENCE In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man. ROBERTO CAVALLI GARCELLE BEAUVAIS MARTIN BUBER They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or... IAN SOMERHALDER MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY MARINA ABROMOVIC Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came... BIBLE HEDY LAMARR JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE JAMES A. FROUDE JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who ha... QANDEEL BALOCH I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back h... ADHIR KALYAN NICKI MINAJ IDINA MENZEL SAUL BELLOW BEBE REXHA BHARATI MUKHERJEE LAILA ALI ASAP ROCKY EL DEBARGE FREDERICK DOUGLASS The kids all literally think I'm Spider-Man, and they ask me how I shoot my webs. It's flatt... JAKE EPSTEIN What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because ... AL JARREAU JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AURORA TRACY MORGAN HANNIBAL BURESS
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You won't last long without either. ROD COLON It is a similar position, and he's got traits like Derrick -- but Derrick has been to nine Pro Bowls... ROD MARINELLI He'll go down to me as one of the quietest, toughest guys in our league. To me, he's the player of t... ROD BARNES I think the festival does a good job of making Shakespeare accessible and helping to dispel this myt... ROD WOEHLER ROD STEWART We are still holding back a few volunteers in case something happens here locally. But we are not ex... ROD COOK I felt pressure coming to the last hole. All I was looking for was a par. But the way I hit the shot... ROD PAMPLING Those who participated or stood idly by and watched as all this went down should also be ashamed of ... ROD SMALLWOOD We were tired. I didn't think we needed to stifle their momentum as much as we needed a break. We ju... ROD SCHWARZ I don't think you look backwards. ROD MARINELLI I was wondering, 'Is this going to work?' ROD ARGENT That's higher than it got on the charts the first time, ROD ARGENT For the first time in years, it felt honest to use the name Zombies, ROD ARGENT It felt so natural, ROD ARGENT It wouldn't be unusual for dad to call on Jim and Steve to play if his regular musicians couldn't sh... ROD ARGENT We hope to raise around £10,000 from the concert which will go... ROD ARGENT The album didn't even make the upper reaches of the chart, ROD ARGENT I invited Colin up on the spur of the moment, ROD ARGENT When I'm at home I hardly ever bother with alcohol and I play a lot of tennis at my local club. ROD ARGENT Basically, [guitarist] Chris [White] and I had a good writing income, and we hadn't been gigging muc... ROD ARGENT ROD STEWART ROD LAVER ROD LAVER ROD LAVER ROD LAVER ROD STEWART I don?t think this is a slippery slope. This is the cliff at the bottom of the slippery slope. ROD KLAWITTER Alice: I didn't know that cheshire cats grinned. 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People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don&... 
I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I w... 
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason ... 
I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ... 
It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages an... 
Rare is the man who seeks not only to heal himself but to heal his fellow man. 
I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a s... 
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. 
I want to negotiate what I'm worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be li... 
I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I ... 
I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself o... 
Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is ... 
In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages. 
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only belie... 
The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I... 
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my bu... 
I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave. 
Women try to be the best everywhere, and it's impossible. I want my clothes to give women the fr... 
I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte. 
A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to... 
I come across too much material on "how to make a man want you", "how to make a man commit", "how to... 
With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich ... 
I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am... 
Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. 
To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could... 
I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a so... 
When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?' 
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. 
I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be en... 
There's a window in my life which is football. I try to remember that it's not going to be t... 
For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man... 
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set befo... 
I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think ... 
The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity. 
My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the cre... 
I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it t... 
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... 
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. 
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape 
I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs. 
Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheime... 
My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was ... 
'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a ... 
I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichoto... 
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to... 
It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had ... 
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of... 
There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So th... 
Of course I dream to have this perfect man who does not want to change me. And I'm so not marria... 
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any othe... 
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow ... 
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow c... 
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow c... 
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-c... 
I want to show little girls that the possibilities are endless. That's my goal - to not only do ... 
As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel li... 
Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also aga... 
In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting... 
My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not ack... 
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'... 
I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live... 
I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny ... 
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end faste... 
Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder?... 
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's... 
What am I afraid of? The IRS. That's it. I don't want those people knockin' on my door, ... 
I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating... 
I think, with suits and clothes, if you keep them long enough, they all come back in fashion. 
My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me. 
Seeing is not always believing. 
I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk. 
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapo... 
When you have the opportunity, you strike. 
The next point -- that's all you must think about. 
The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up. 
The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept ... 
Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unf... 
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. 
There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-fie... 
Harmon Killebrew was a gem. I can never thank him enough for all I learned from him. He was a consum... 