- Believe
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What am I afraid of? The IRS. That's it. I don't want those people knockin' on my door, man.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wayne through the years as this figure carved in marble; this perfect man. The only thing we really know about is that he died in that alley outside of a theater. But every son has to confront the reality of his father at some point in his life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to sing swing and shuffle stuff. Radio may not play it coast to coast, but I love playing them. Man, they fill the dance floor up. People who live the night life at these honky-tonks eat this stuff up.
- Nov 07, 2020
We are all racers at heart, and what we want to see is out and out racing, and may the quickest man win.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The revolution of Saint Domingo was taking its course. I saw that the whites could not endure, because they were divided and because they were overpowered by numbers; I congratulated myself that I was a black man.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
- Bonded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised by my aunt and we bonded over the eight-o-clock movie on TV. We'd watch everything from James Cagney in 'White Heat' to Lon Chaney in 'The Wolf Man' and every Bogart movie.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just happy that as an African-American man, that 'Candyman' has once again been given the nod to enter people's consciousness.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A naughty part of me thinks, how come Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Tim McInnerny have all done really good parts in a film, whereas I've only ever done bits and bobs? Before I die, wouldn't it be nice to be the scheming old man in a movie?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Virtually all my conscious life I had been involved in theatre - I had been a child actor - but as a young man who had experienced the 1960s, British theatre seemed remote from my aspirations in life - theatre was still a posh thing, a middle-class thing, something for an elite.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020