Be A Man Quotes - Page 16

• I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man.

  Jerry Hall

  Thinking, Men, Ideas

  "Jerry Hall seeks mate". The Associated Press Interview, www.smh.com.au. June 7, 2005.

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• Men talk about masculinity through sports and clothes. They don't talk about gender, they talk about LeBron James and whether it's okay to wear lipstick and eyeliner. They're not getting to the question at hand, which is, "What does it mean to be a man when the traditional values of masculinity are eroding incredibly rapidly?'

  Stephen Marche

  Sports, Mean, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Perfection, Contemplation

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• To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.

  Red Auerbach

  Success, Sports, Integrity

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• Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1655, Delphi Classics

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• Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

  Henry Fielding

  Reality, Men, Criticism

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• He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Men, Innovation

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• That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Eye, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• ... the socialization of boys regarding masculinity is often at the expense of women. I came to realize that we don't raise boys to be men, we raise them not be women (or gay men). We teach boys that girls and women are "less than" and that leads to violence by some and silence by many. It's important for men to stand up to not only stop men's violence against women but, to teach young men a broader definition of masculinity that includes being empathetic, loving and non-violent.

  Don McPherson

  Girl, Powerful, Gay

  Interview with Jeff Pearlman, www.jeffpearlman.com. April 21, 2011.

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• You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.

  John Wayne

  Men, Gentleman, Manhood

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• Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they have no resting-place without it. They may be men of a certain experience and discrimination, and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems, for which we sincerely thank them; but all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits. They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and expediency.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Moving, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.210, Graphic Arts Books

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• Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Able, Latter

  Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women”

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• Every woman is multifaceted. Every woman has a switch, whether she's going to be maternal, whether she's going to be a man-eater, whether she has to kick ass, whether she has to be one of the boys, whether she has to show the guys that she's just as smart or smarter, she's just as talented or creative. Women suppress a lot of their sides.

  Nicki Minaj

  Smart, Boys, Men

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Biblically defined marriage is a man and a woman for life, and so anything different than that is not God's ideal whether it be polygamy, whether it be divorce, whether it be a marriage between a man and a man or a woman and a woman. The ideal would be a man and a woman under a covenant of God's blessing.

  Max Lucado

  Divorce, Blessing, Men

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Men, Bars

  Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

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• [Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Men, Hands, Homework

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• We must every one be a man of his own fancy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Fancy

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.105

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• The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the girls to spin, weave, quilt, cook, sew, and mind their manners; the boys to wield gun, ax, hammer and saw, to ride, plow, sow and reap, and to be men. Nobody need ever be bored. Amusement did not have to be bought.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Girl, Quilts, War

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• Young men just don't know what it means to be a man. There are so many lies about what it means to be a man whether that be get a bunch of girls or get a bunch of money or don't cry and don't have emotions. Nobody is teaching them how to be men.

  Trip Lee

  Girl, Lying, Teaching

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

  Vera Farmiga

  Mean, Men, Males

  "Vera Farmiga on “Higher Ground”". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2011.

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• You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

  Roy Campanella

  Baseball, Boys, Men

  Quoted in New York Journal-American, 12 Apr. 1957

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• We are intensely loyal to our parents. In spite of the pain we experienced at our parent's hands, we cling tenaciously to their views of life; and their examples of what it is to be a man or a woman follow us throughout life. Acknowledging the power of our loyalty to them, and especially our loyalty to our same-sex parent, is only the beginning of our journey to improve upon their model; but it is at least a first step.

  Augustus Napier

  Loyalty, Sex, Pain

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• I absolutely do prefer a dominant guy. I play a very dominant role in my life, in every other aspect of it. And I like to feel like a lady still, at some point. I feel like that's the time when a guy really gets to be a man, and I get to be a woman. And if I'm being a man in the bedroom too, there's nothing really in it for me.

  Rihanna

  Men, Play, Guy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

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• I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.

  Adam Brody

  Drinking, Men, Scotch

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