- 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
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because bisexual people almost have a foot in the gay and the straight world, their friends can misunderstand them too. Like if a bisexual man starts dating another man, people are like 'Ah, he's gay,' but you know, bisexual people remain bisexual, and their attractions can change and flux over time.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my teen years and all of my twenties it felt like I was trying to live up to this expectation of being a man and what that meant - not just what clothes I wore, but how I acted.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before 'Cinderella Man,' I didn't box. But I boxed. It's possible. You go and you work hard at things.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I didn't do that much in Chicago after that. I actually sat around and didn't do anything for three years. I didn't know what I wanted to do anymore because my everything was gone. I was a mama's boy, and I had to turn into a man real quick.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Horror movies, man, the blood entails so much time. And horror movies are not fun; definitely not starting there as a director. Definitely not horror.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a diverse people, man.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can assure you that during my tenure as his employee, Bob Ney was the hardest working man in Ohio and Washington. I can further assure you the work that he did and the decisions he made were done with integrity and the highest regard for his office and those he served.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020