Males Quotes - Page 15

• For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Rights, Black, Sound

  "Hot Tracks: Gary Clark Jr". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. December 2012.

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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Psychics, Practice, Black

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• Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Stars, Men, Twenties

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• The natural world is full of females falling hard for stupid male display behavior, including bright feathers, big antlers, and bombastic courtship rituals.

  Richard Conniff

  Sex, Stupid, Fall

  Richard Conniff (2003). “The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.

  Harold Bloom

  Thinking, Two, Voice

  Interview with Imre Salusinski in "Criticism in Society", 1987.

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• Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Tears, Lions

  Song: Foot of Pride

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• I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.

  Gary Kemp

  Metrosexuals, Grooming

  "What I see in the mirror" by Gary Kemp, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

  Mark Leyner

  Husband, Father, Son

  "Mark Leyner on 'War, Inc.'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. May 22, 2008.

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• To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.

  Dean Norris

  Military, Nice, Guy

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

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• Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.

  Alexei Navalny

  Men, Russia, Ideas

  "Pussy Riot Trial 'Reminds Me of the Inquisition'". Interview with Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. August 20, 2012.

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• The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Opportunity, Female Writers, Lines

  "This much I know: Chris O'Dowd". Interview with Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Character, Interesting, Female

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• I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.

  Marisha Pessl

  Believe, Character, Writing

  "Off the Page: Marisha Pessl". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2006.

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• Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Eggs, Two, Creating

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• Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.

  Jacques Pepin

  Mistake, Thinking, America

  "Chef Jacques Pepin on Food and the Power of Memory" by Sarah Rosenberg, Tom Mccarthy, abcnews.go.com. September 15, 2009.

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• There aren't a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite.

  Teresa Palmer

  Stars, Opposites, Play

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• I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

  Kelly Reilly

  Strong Women, Play, Strong Love

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.

  Cesar Romero

  Laughing, Concerned, Mines

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• I had both male and female heroes.

  Sally Ride

  Hero, Female

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• You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.

  Samantha Stosur

  Past, Player, People

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

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• Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Novelists

  "Curtis Sittenfeld: 'American Wife is the opposite of satire'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2010.

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• There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Careers, Age, Hiatus

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• When I look at Jesus' warm and intimate friendships, my heart fills with praise that Jesus was. . . a man. A man of flesh-and-blood reality. His heart felt the sting of sympathy. His eyes glowed with tenderness. His arms embraced. His lips smiled. His hands touched. Jesus was male! Jesus invites us to relate to him as the Son of Man. And because he is fully man, we can relate to Jesus with affection and love.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Jesus, Eye, Heart

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• Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Buddhism, Female

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• The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Buddhism, Years

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