Males Quotes - Page 17

• As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

  Omari Hardwick

  Couple, Thinking, Skin Color

  "Omari Hardwick - The 'Kick-Ass'". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. 2010.

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• When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, "I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man."

  Omari Hardwick

  Gay, Men, Play

  "Exclusive: Omari Hardwick Raw (Career Evolution, Transition, Testimony Of Faith In Hollywood, 'Kick-Ass 2,' More)". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

  Bailey Chase

  Mom, Growing Up, Home

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• When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Girl, Growing Up, Reading

  "Kathryn Lasky About A Journey to the New World". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Book, Eye

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• Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Men, Female

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• Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Struggle, Night

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.42, Yale University Press

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• The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Garden, Eden

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• When you see your male counterparts living a completely different lifestyle, I think it would be quite depressing! So no, it's not for me.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Depressing, Thinking, Different

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• You can't bond with a male until you set your parents free.

  Robert Mandel

  Marriage, Parent

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• I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

  Pam Gems

  Philosophy, War, Masquerade

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• I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Father, Son, Philadelphia

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• Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.

  Elizabeth Debold

  Mother Daughter, Men, Winning

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• As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Taken, Judging, Long

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.64, Lantern Books

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• I think most people don't really understand all that it takes to stand on your toes, and to be able to jump and land without any noise, or for a male dancer to be able to lift a girl. All of these things look so effortless, but there's an attention to detail and years of training, as well as being able to transform into a character and being able to meld all of those things together.

  Misty Copeland

  Girl, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Deeds are males, words females are.

  Sir John Davies

  Female, Deeds

  "Scene of Folly", p. 147, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 184-87, 1922.

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• Power is neither male nor female.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Power, Female

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• The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Clever, Self, Disease

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

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• Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.

  Dave Barry

  Dream, Depressing, Men

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• Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Humorous, Imagination

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• If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

  Gloria Steinem

  Teaching, Men, Dominant

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• You know who must be very secure in their masculinity? Male ladybugs.

  Jay Leno

  Men, Ladybugs, Masculinity

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• I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.

  Christine Lagarde

  Hate, Thinking, Female

  "A Study in Power: Christine Lagarde" by Camilla Webster, www.forbes.com. August 24, 2011.

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• There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Years, Names

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.128

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• Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Movie, Girl

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