- Miracle
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and I think Chris Wink, the founder of Blue Man Group, was in that. It's a black-and-white dance sequence. We were Glorious Food waiters together.
- Grown Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cogsworth, the character I did on 'Beauty and the Beast,' could be a bit flamboyant onscreen, because basically, he is a cartoon. But they didn't want Cogsworth to become Disney's gay character, because it got around a gay man was playing him.
- Bad Manners
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- Nov 07, 2020
It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
- Best Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.
- Components
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a long time to drag myself out of bed, and at night I'm buzzing. As a young man it was helpful, but now I'd like to be tired when I go to bed and alive in the morning.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020