Be A Man Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Cutting, Science, Men

  1953 'The Sense of Human Dignity', lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19 Mar.

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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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• 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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• When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!

  Andrea Bocelli

  Horse, Men, Action

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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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• 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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• You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Fighting, Intelligent

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

  David Mamet

  Men, Upset, Our Society

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

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Men

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• If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

  Zakk Wylde

  Tired, Men, Black

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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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• I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Insecure, Men, Thinking

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• I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Men, Thinking, Vision

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• If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

  John Updike

  Children, Men, Ice Cream

  John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.244, Random House

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

  Brittany Murphy

  Men

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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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