Quotes About Authenticity

Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being.

I like a man who can come out and say he's nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute.

Men's language is as their lives.

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

No man knows himself as an original.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.