- Mother
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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
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
- Grown Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to go the NBA and win a championship because I've never seen a grown man cry the way Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan cried when they won a championship.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
- Nov 07, 2020
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020