My man Friday (Robinson Crusoe)


Daniel Defoe

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Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
ANONYMOUS
Notice: The only person getting his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
UNKNOWN
He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe!
SAMUEL FOOTE
Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York City.
WALTER LIPPMANN
I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
DANIEL DEFOE
We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.
LI KEQIANG
I was built for this. I got those survival instincts. I'm like Robinson Crusoe, a neighborhood MacGy...
CLARENCE RODRIGUEZ
I was built for this, ... I got those survival instincts. I'm like Robinson Crusoe, a neighborhood M...
GREGORY RODRIGUEZ
Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and the...
CARLOS FUENTES
Many of these biographies are based on rubbish that just isn't true, ... All the traditional stories...
DAVID DOBSON
I've enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs t...
DAVID PLEAT
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasu...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE
I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents bui...
ARIEL LEVY
The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the book...
DOROTHY ALLISON
Not in my neighborhood, Mr. Robinson.
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
DANIEL DEFOE
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
DANIEL DEFOE
All men would be tyrants if they could.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE
He that is rich is wise.
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
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'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a ci...
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.
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Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be fo...
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And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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They are no kings, though they possess the crow...
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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The main street is the most spacious, the longest and best inhabited street in Europe... the buildin...
DANIEL DEFOE
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late
DANIEL DEFOE
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will ...
DANIEL DEFOE
Necessity makes an honest man a knave
DANIEL DEFOE
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch
DANIEL DEFOE
Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and...
DANIEL DEFOE
Middle age is youth without its levity,/ And age without decay.
DANIEL DEFOE
We lov'd the doctrine for the teachers sake
DANIEL DEFOE
Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, ...
DANIEL DEFOE
In trouble to be troubled Is to have your trouble doubled
DANIEL DEFOE
We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.
DANIEL DEFOE
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could
DANIEL DEFOE
From this amphibious ill-born mob beganThat vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.
DANIEL DEFOE
He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the u...
DANIEL DEFOE
One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's na...
DANIEL DEFOE
They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and...
DANIEL DEFOE
'Tis no sin to cheat the devil
DANIEL DEFOE
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of ...
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In the morning, looking towards the sea side, the tide being low, I saw something lie on the shore b...
DANIEL DEFOE
Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has...
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It is never too late to be wise.
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Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found,...
DANIEL DEFOE
He that is rich is wise
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Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
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I inhaled books. I loved Classics Illustrated comic books. These were books that I could afford to b...
JEWELL PARKER RHODES
Crusoe is not the chipset that's going to drive meaningful growth.
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Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an accept...
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Violence doesn't make you man; it's the distance your are willing to go. - Daniel Ray Waring jr.
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A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
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A voice in my head told me I acted like a spoiled brat, but I duct taped that sucker shut. I didn’...
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That was an inside deal at the management level to buy Crusoe out.
JAMES CHAPMAN
That was an inside deal at the management level to buy Crusoe out,
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Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, "Give me masturbation or give me d...
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As a minister of the Lord in whatever way the Lord decides to use you and with the gifts he gives yo...
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Dear God, if one day I lose my hope and purpose, give me confidence that your destiny is better than...
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Power & Money are fruits of life! But Family &Friends re roots of life! We can manage withou...
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Jackie Robinson is a true legend.
SIDNEY POITIER
A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Daniel still say I, a second Daniel! I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
So, what are you doing with my little sister today?” Daniel asked. I closed my eyes in defeat.
MICHELLE HODKIN
I love you, Daniel.
DANIEL CRAIG
The Book of Daniel.
ELLEN BURSTYN
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music fr...
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Les Saveurs de Daniel Boulud.
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No” Daniel cried “ No, no, no”
Luce’s heart ached as he tore at his hair, spun in circl...
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I thought of Doc [Gooden], ... He loved Friday nights at home. Remember how that was? Man.
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Look at the names in the Jackie Robinson Wing, ... Steve Young, Dorothy Hamill. The Jackie Robinson ...
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I heard all the black people buzzing about this man in Brooklyn named Jackie Robinson. I asked who h...
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Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
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Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
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I'm progressing. I'm working hard, I'm working hard ... doing everything I can do, during practice a...
DANIEL ROBINSON
My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.
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DANIEL EVERETT
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DANIEL EVERETT
Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of i...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very g...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't mak...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I thi...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he t...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
DANIEL ESPINOSA
If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience w...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.
DANIEL ESPINOSA
When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
DANIEL ESPINOSA
It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their age...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret...
DANIEL ELLSBERG
I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
DANIEL ELLSBERG
It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'...
DANIEL ELLSBERG
If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I hav...
DANIEL ELLSBERG
President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several tim...
DANIEL ELLSBERG
Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis...
DANIEL ELLSBERG
Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vie...
DANIEL ELLSBERG
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
DANIEL ELLSBERG
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli...
DANIEL ELLSBERG