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For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. -- Dennis Prager
For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting. -- Adam Driver
Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man. -- Chris Brown
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers. -- Zach Braff
Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man. -- Patrick Ness
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man. -- Albert Camus
There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster. -- Barack Obama
I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man. -- Blake Griffin
I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it. -- F. Murray Abraham
If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave. -- Kevin Bacon
I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion! -- William Congreve
You take a really sleepy man, EsmÃ©, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac"?with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact. -- J. D. Salinger
I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave. -- Kevin Bacon
I honor anybody who wants to be a man and do the work of becoming a man. I honor anyone who mindfully becomes a woman. That's cool. But, I really don't get how there's only two choices. There's no two of anything else in the entire universe; why should there only be two genders? I don't get it. -- Kate Bornstein
Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace and love of life, with respect for everyone. Become craftsmen of a new humanity, where brothers and sisters - members all of the same family - are able at last to live in peace. -- Pope John Paul II
Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad. -- Giancarlo Esposito
In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man. -- Jack Abramoff
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. -- Roger Kahn
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. -- Knut Hamsun
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. -- Loren Eiseley
Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs. -- Meghan Markle
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man. -- Shana Alexander
I love Russell Crowe's line to Oliver Reed in 'Gladiator' where he asks him, 'Are you in danger of becoming a good man?' It's one of my favorite lines ever. -- Jonathan Banks
But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man. -- Hugh Grant
Technologies that exist between man and nature in a simple form and those that enable the interaction with other technologies are becoming significantly more complex and create their own information systems. -- Hubert Burda
Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man. -- Jon Landau
I've always seen 'Y' as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible. -- Brian K. Vaughan
Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history. -- Robert Dallek
I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older. -- Jonah Hill
Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing to come to terms with. Now I'm in my late 20s and I was in my early 20s when I became recognizable. But I think 'Moneyball' represents a very strong shift in my career and becoming an adult and a man. -- Jonah Hill
Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself. -- Greg Iles
The man just is, but clothes are becoming. -- Harry Hooton
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. -- Quintilian
Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. -- Susan Sontag
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man. -- Swami Vivekananda
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God. -- Eric Butterworth
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself. -- Vernon Howard
A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin. -- Tacitus
A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening, -- Bernie Krause
Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man. -- Andre Gide
History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man. -- Albert Einstein
A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so. -- Edward P. Jones
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.] -- Quintilian
What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life? -- Paul Stookey
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. -- Soren Kierkegaard
When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you. -- Cher
Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor. -- Karl Marx
An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original. -- Margaret Fuller
Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker. -- G. Stanley Hall
Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
[Success as panacea and trap:] The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object. -- Warren Farrell
But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work. -- Colleen McCullough
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre. -- Edward Dahlberg
Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse. -- George Bernard Shaw
I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man. -- Emma Stone
In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and mythology. It was a way to inspire pre-Christian character. -- Camille Henrot

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