- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.
- Basic Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ronaldo, the Brazilian one - incredible player. I met him once. I was in Ibiza on holiday and quite by chance ran into him in a club. He's the only man I'd go up to and ask for a picture. And I did.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.
- Nov 07, 2020
If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more you learn about the science of boxing, the more appreciation you have for man's ability to think and perform in violent situations, and that's what interests me in film.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020