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Quotes About Self-expression

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.
~ Andrew Cohen
At least once in their life, every man should feel what it's like to wear high heels.
~ Andrew W.K.
Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
~ RuPaul
I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.
~ Hayden Christensen
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.
~ Henrik Ibsen
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
~ Josh Billings
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
~ Paul Gauguin
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
~ Plutarch
Let each man have the wit to go his own way.
~ Propertius
It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
~ Aristotle
The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
~ Natalia Kills
To be a man is to be a nonconformist.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.
~ John Lone
I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.
~ Justin Timberlake
Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
~ Thomas Carlyle
At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.
~ A. A. Milne
It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
~ Abraham Cowley
There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.
~ Barry Webster
I do not choose to be a common man.
~ Dean Alfange
I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!
~ Donny Osmond