Macho Quotes - Page 3

• My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.

  Christopher Bollen

  Mother, Dad, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that there's always something terribly flawed about people who are tattooed, above some little something that Johnny had done in the Navy, even though that's a bad sign...It's terrible. Psychologically it's crazy. Most people who are tattooed, it's the sign of some feeling of inferiority, they're trying to establish some macho identification for themselves.

  Truman Capote

  Tattoo, Crazy, People

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• The road climbed into the mountains, Jonah taking the hairpin curves as fast as he dared. "You look so macho clutching the door handle that way," he said to Hamilton. "Just...be...careful," Hamilton said through clenched teeth.

  Judy Blundell

  Curves, Doors, Mountain

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• No, no,” Leo said. “Rainbows. Very macho.

  Rick Riordan

  Rainbow, Said

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• Leo: Rainbows. Very macho. Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the pegasi. Leo: Rainbows, ponies... Butch: I'm gonna toss you off this chariot.

  Rick Riordan

  Rainbow, Ponies, Annabeth

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• That macho protective bullshit is just some asshat man pissing on his territory so the other dogs will stay away.

  Tammara Webber

  Dog, Men, Bullshit

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.519, Tammara Webber

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• The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.

  Jaron Lanier

  Real, Nerd, Culture

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• There are very few comics that understand about exciting the crowd, and that's what I always prided myself on: giving a more confident macho attitude towards delivering material.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Attitude, Giving, Crowds

  "Andrew Dice Clay on His New Special, Political Correctness, and Working with Woody Allen". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. December 20, 2012.

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• I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.

  Randeep Hooda

  Dog, Sweet, Home

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• When I think of [my relationship with Gable], considering the way it started, it was curious. We became devoted to each other. We weren't lovers-he was in love with Carole Lombard...we eventually became more like siblings. Nobody believes that and you can understand why...but our relationship was unique. Oh he sometimes gave me the macho routine when people were watching but he changed when we were alone.

  Myrna Loy

  Sibling, Believe, Unique

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• I've been with police on patrol. When you have a gun, you just feel different. There's a protective level and you feel all those feelings. You feel a little bit macho and a little bit frightened.

  Matt Servitto

  Gun, Police, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• Macho in a different sense, the kind of things that we think makes us a man. It doesn't really exist right now. I really don't want it to seem that I think it's a problem that women are in development, I don't think it's as problem at all, I just think it's an interesting time that we're in. And maybe long overdue - maybe television for a long time was made for men and it's long overdue.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Source: deadline.com

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• I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys who go around behaving in macho ways are really scared little girls. So you have to look beneath the surface. There's a difference between my ideal man and a man that I'm sexually attracted to, believe me. Therein lies the rub.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Lying, Believe

  Interview with Vince Aletti for Aperture Magazine, Summer 1999.

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• In all honesty, because my name is Cinco and I grew up in Phoenix, I had a lot of exposure to Latin culture and those sorts of things, and that inspired the idea of this villain, El Macho. The name came first and everything else came after that. We loved the idea of this villain. Ken actually has a lot of Latino roots in his family, too.

  Cinco Paul

  Honesty, Latin, Names

  Source: collider.com

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• I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's a mysticism about them.

  Lily Koppel

  Guy, Fighter, Incredibles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like that. It is a small, slow crawl to the finish line. Honestly, I have moments when I don't even care if anyone reads this book. I just want to finish it.

  Amy Poehler

  Struggle, Book, Wrestling

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• I can't be someone I'm not. I try to be a warrior on the court, but where I come from, being macho doesn't get you anywhere.

  Antonio McDyess

  Warrior, Trying, Court

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• If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous.

  John Travolta

  Androgynous, Ifs

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• Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat to the nation or as weaklings they can denounce.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Leader, Outsiders

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• Companies that do not actively practice, study, and plan for crisis communications - as well, of course, crisis management - are doomed to fail when a crisis befalls them. Crises are, in a word, inevitable, and those macho companies that think, "it can't happen here," or if it does, "I can handle it," will suffer the hardest failures.

  Steven Fink

  Communication, Thinking, Suffering

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.

  Hilarie Burton

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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• And the rules were so clear, you could not deviate from that all. And I think it especially damaged my sisters because there was nothing they could do to get my father's attention, to win his approval. They could not play sports. They could not do these other things. They could not be tough. They could not be macho. And so I think they suffered just from sheer neglect if nothing else.

  Terry Gross

  Sports, Father, Winning

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• I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.

  Blake Judd

  Attitude, Intelligent, People

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Kings, Successful

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was very macho, was a strong swimmer and was terribly disappointed to have children who didn't swim. Once when my mother was sitting in a beach chair - I can still see the big umbrella - she called to my father, "Throw them in! Throw them in! They'll swim!" So he did. Then he looked down, and there were the three Sendak children lying perfectly still underwater, not fighting for life!

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Beach, Brother

  Source: www.hbook.com

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