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Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby. -- Mason Cooley
Machismo requires Latin blood. I'd say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee filter in comparison. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile. -- Mason Cooley
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. -- Germaine Greer
The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home. -- Jimmy Buffett
The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty. -- Eduardo Galeano
Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat. -- Lorrie Moore
Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music. -- Macklemore
I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I'm kind of the sissy in my family. -- Nick Offerman
Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are. -- Alain de Botton
I have a very healthy growth of both head and facial hair. People always want to attribute further superhuman powers to me. It's funny the way the audience really seems to want me, Nick the actor, to exhibit the same machismo as Ron Swanson. -- Nick Offerman
Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war itself. No matter the surge of momentary machismo -- as gratifying as it may be for some -- it's short-sighted and wrong to simply go it alone. -- Dick Gephardt
In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know? -- Yoko Ono
The not-visibly-insane Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. In case you missed this profile in Democrat machismo, the Democratic presidential candidates are refusing to participate in a debate hosted by Fox News Channel because the hosts are "biased." But they'll face down Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! At this, even Hillary Clinton was thinking, "Come on, guys let's grow a pair. -- Ann Coulter
Many in business feel they have to live up to a machismo archetype of the big-swinging-dick business leader -- Jon Miller
I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think. -- John Darnielle
Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the clichÃ© of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices. -- Pedro Almodovar

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