Man Quotes
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Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
Gabrielle Union
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Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
Barry Manilow
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A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.
Mackenzie King
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I call that man idle who might be better employed.
Socrates
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
Anatole France
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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Oscar Wilde
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Samuel Johnson
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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
Thomas A. Edison
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You must remind yourself: The #1 reason to merge your life with a man is that he makes you feel happier - not more anxious and depressed.
Karen Salmansohn
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When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A sad man, is man with the lights turned off.
Arsenie Boca
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A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.
Dorothy Dunnett
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If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.
Barry McGuigan
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It is kind of cliche to say you like a man to smell like a man, but I really do. My husband can go three or four days without taking a shower and the man never smells.
Natasha Henstridge
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.... In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.
Aristotle
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When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.
Donald Miller
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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.
Oscar Wilde
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
Herodotus
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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
O. Henry
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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.
Aristotle