- Greatest Weapon
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.
- Rabble
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a rabble rouser, man!
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at 'The Best Man,' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Communities of color have also had to watch video after video of unarmed black men and women being handled without regard for their lives or well-being. As a black man, I see these images, and I see myself; I wonder whether this will happen to me or one of my loved ones.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020