Man Quotes
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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
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Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
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Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.
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'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.
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If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix.
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There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.
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Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.
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My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
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The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We don’t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always ‘in spite of.’
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All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
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I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
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I like a little bit of a rough look because it's sexy. But when a man has a rough look, and he goes and gets a cleanup, then it's very sexy as well.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.
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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
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Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
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Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
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It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man.
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He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.
