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The truth is, the older you get, the less variety of parts you are offered. If you`re a star and you`ve spent most of your career being able to take your pick of the litter, you notice when the offers start to diminish. You`re too old to play leads, so you`re offered the supporting role - but many stars don`t want to make that transition. They see it as a sign of symbolic impotence. And that the audience will no longer regard them as a star. I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

- Dustin Hoffman

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

- Loni Anderson

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

- Norman Mailer

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

- Ayn Rand
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

- Rick Moody

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

- Adam Loewen

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

- Joseph Roux