Be A Man Quotes - Page 12

• Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

  Bei Dao

  Mother, Hero, Men

  Bei Dao (1983). “Notes from the City of the Sun: Poems”

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• My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Mean, Men, Political

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• Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

  Agnes Smedley

  Girl, Fighting, Boys

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• If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Men, Want

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• There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

  Jenna Elfman

  Men, Thinking, Roles

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• How can I be a man if there is no role model?

  Tupac Shakur

  Reality, Men, Role Models

  Song: Papa'z Song, 1993

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• The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.

  Patricia Ireland

  Boys, Men, Weight

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• The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who does not know that the Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppression of our deplorable press.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Taken, Men, Organization

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• You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Crush, Men, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

  Dwyane Wade

  Children, Father, Boys

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• I like being able to be a man.

  Anson Mount

  Men, Able

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

  Joe Frazier

  Men, Games, Boxing

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• I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.

  Jason Momoa

  Men, Thinking, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

  Wallace Stegner

  Humble, Responsibility, Men

  Wallace Stegner, James Hepworth (1998). “Stealing Glances: Three Interviews with Wallace Stegner”

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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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• Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

  John Ciardi

  Hate, Men, Devil

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• What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being close enough to teach us how to be men, in a world in which men were discouraged from talking about our masculinity and questioning its roots and its mystique, in a world that glorified masculinity and gave us impossibly unachievable myths of masculine heroics, but no domestic models to teach us how to do it.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Men, Talking

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• The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Men, Unity, Enemy

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• The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Blow, Men, Order

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• Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

  Sidney Buchman

  Country, Book, Reading

  "Fictional character: Jefferson Smith". "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.

  Gilbert Seldes

  Art, Patriotic, Men

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• All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.

  Michael Ian Black

  Girl, Mom, Men

  "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Integrity, Men

  "Wealth". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860.

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• We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Would Be, Influence

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• I'm proud of this guy. I really am. And nothing that has happened in the last couple of weeks is gonna take that away. He's not a liar. He's a kid. He's a 21-year-old kid trying to be a man and I love him. I really do

  Manti Te'o

  Couple, Liars, Kids

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