- Plays
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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.
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- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very proud of the fact that the women on 'The Americans' are written to be equally complex as the men.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 200 senior officers of the former Soviet army in Moscow in 1991, among them KGB generals. There, my knowledge of Penkovsky's role was thoroughly confirmed, and so was the Soviet military men's residual sense of humiliation at Khrushchev's 'blink'.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.'
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through a string of A&R men who all thought I should be doing something different. One thought I should be a dance diva; another thought I should do Rock n' Roll; and one thought I shouldn't even be singing at all!
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020