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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
- Conceive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the States, there's this part of me that's like, man, I'm Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon as I got to India, and I had to go to the bathroom in some places, I was, like, 'Man - I am American.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people in the media say that Donald Trump goes golfing too much, which raises a very important question: Why do you care? Do you want to know what he's not doing when he's golfing? Being president. Let the man putt-putt!
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump doesn't care about free speech. The man who tweets everything that enters his head doesn't care about the amendment which lets him do that.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's unique ability to change and be super flexible is pretty dope, man. It's pretty incredible. And that's what I want to contribute to.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a scene in 'Medium Cool' in which a young man walks by with a sign that says, 'Sanity, please.' If anything summarizes what I was feeling at that time, it is that sign.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020