Be A Man Quotes - Page 2

• I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Prejudice, Paradox

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Richard Lawrence Archer (1964). “Jean Jacques Rousseau: His Educational Theories Selected from Émile, Julie and Other Writings”, p.98, Barron's Educational Series

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• Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

  Michael Shaara

  Men, Dying, Enjoy

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.421, Ballantine Books

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• I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

  Cornel West

  Wise, Men, Ideas

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.19, Basic Books

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• Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fall, Past, Men

  "Either/Or". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, transl. in "Bulletin: Comparative literature series", Nr. 3, Texas University (1912), p. 45, 1843.

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• Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Men

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• It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Simple, Womanly

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.136

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• It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

  David Mamet

  Men, Upset, Our Society

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• The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Law, Doe

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings”

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• When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

  Javier Bardem

  Men, Ideas, Gender

  "On the Cover: Javier Bardem" by Michael Paterniti, www.gq.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Catholic, Reign

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• To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Acceptance, Power, Men

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. I), 1916.

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• Why be a man when you can be a success?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Bertolt Brecht (1964). “Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf: Early Plays by Bertolt Brecht”

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• I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

  Davy Crockett

  Dog, Men, Littles

  "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend". Book by James Atkins Shackford, p. 133, 1994.

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• Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.

  Jamie Foxx

  Daughter, Mother, Men

  "Oprah Talks to Jamie Foxx". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2005.

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• There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

  Ernest Gaines

  Change, Struggle, Past

  Ernest J. Gaines, John Lowe (1995). “Conversations with Ernest Gaines”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Men, Ties, Why Not

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

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• Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Growing Up, Men

  "Look" Magazine, (JFK memorial issue), November 17, 1964.

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• A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.

  Maureen McCormick

  Men, World, Way

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• I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.

  Brittany Murphy

  Men

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• To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

  William Penn

  Stupid, Men, Fool

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.122

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• When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

  Christina Ricci

  Girl, Teenager, Men

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• I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

  Little Richard

  Men, Wanted, Felt

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• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  Marat Safin

  Men, Losing, Ifs

  "Marat Safin crashes out of Shanghai with swipe at Berdych and Roddick". www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2009.

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• Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

  Patti Smith

  Men, Thinking, Santa

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• Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

  Maya Angelou

  Mean, Men, Rude

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