- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men Quotes
Serious duty and dry humor, side by side.
Quotes about "men" here range from serious to sharply funny — one set addresses military service and daily accountability, while another pushes back on the idea that women should shape themselves around what men expect. For related themes, see Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fleeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to know more than everyone else in the room. In a roomful of men, I have to know more than them.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.
- Trapped
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- Nov 07, 2020
Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of women.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm probably a guy's girl, although I hate that phrase. I tend to have more close male friends than I do female friends, and I always have. I would say that of my 10 close friends, seven are men.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to college and got my degree in acting, but because it was all theater, I really consider my first couple years on 'Mad Men' as amazing training for working in television and for acting on-camera.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women feel like we're fat if we can't wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contrast, only start to feel fat only when they can no longer fit into a foreign car.
- Nov 07, 2020
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020