Males Quotes - Page 17

• I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

  John Malkovich

  Opportunity, Men, Thinking

  "Stage acting? It's just too hard". www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2005.

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• In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.197, David R. Godine Publisher

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• There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.153, Routledge

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• I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.

  Stephen Colbert

  Book, College, Men

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

  Kate Millett

  Women, Exercise, Animal

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.119, Columbia University Press

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• My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

  Stephen Bayley

  Wife, Cooking, Dinner

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• Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.

  Maureen Reagan

  Giving, Political, Percent

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• It is well within the order of things
  That man should listen when his mate sings;
  But the true male never yet walked
  Who liked to listen when his mate talked.

  Anna Wickham

  Marriage, Women, Order

  'The Affinity'

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• To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.

  Valerie Solanas

  Men, Opposites, Female

  Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

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• What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

  Susan Collins

  Style, Colleagues, Deference

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• James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

  Tracy Pollan

  Character, Female, Way

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• I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

  Jay Baruchel

  Girl, Strong Women, Writing

  "Jay Baruchel on His Hockey Comedy, Goon, Meeting James Franco, and Writing for Women". Interview with Jennifer Vineyard, www.vulture.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.

  Cheryl James

  Girl, Rap, Voice

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• When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

  Grace Jones

  Childhood, Bully, Scary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Children, Order, Care

  "On Mother Kelly's doorstep" by Colin Richardson, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2006.

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• I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Character, Writing, Men

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• You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

  Eleanor Clift

  Office, Vote, Environment

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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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• 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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• It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.

  Christopher Darden

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Female, Reason

  "Bret Easton Ellis on American Psycho, Christian Bale, and His Problem with Women Directors". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, movieline.com. May 18, 2010.

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• I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Jeffery Eugenides Discusses New Book: ‘The Marriage Plot’". Interview With Madeleine Crum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

  Calvin Harris

  Voice, Policemen, Dance Music

  "Calvin Harris On Dance-Pop As A 'Futuristic Experiment'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.krvs.org. December 8, 2012.

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• There are male as well as female gossips.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gossip, Female, Wells

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