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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
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
- Street
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
- Sex
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- Nov 07, 2020
For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
- Nov 07, 2020