- Fat
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- 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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In New York City, it's popular. I used to think to myself, 'Man, there's a lot of gay people out here.' And it had me comfortable: it was like, I can be myself! I used to still try to hide it, until it was really overwhelming - there were just too much girls attracted to me!
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you say 'the man of the house,' the black woman has been the woman and the man of the house, because black men have so often had to spend all of their time and energy working and trying, at least, to give their families the basic needs. So black women, I find, are not really concerned about women's liberation.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The carnal nature of man is that he places his tribe above others, but the only basis for the power and unity of the church is that there is no Jew or Gentile.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020