Quotes About Authenticity

Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn't aware of his fear.

No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform.

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

Always making sure I'm clean. And that's truly what it's about. I think it's a lot of misconceptions about what a man is, what a thug is, and all that kind of stuff.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

You don't want the white men to be written in a three-dimensional way but the black men, not. I mean, it's just about [how] scripts should always reflect real human beings. So that's what I look for.

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

Sam Turton is the true embodiment of the responsible artist. The honesty and integrity of the man comes out with every soulful note he sings.

What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.