“It's easy to be a bad ass, it's easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it's easy to be a diva, and it's easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind.” KindImportantSelfGuyEasyNiceGoes OnToughListsAssBeing NiceBad AssSelf AbsorbedTough Guy Author:Dwayne Johnson
“I never go on a movie set as the star. I always go as the guy who just does his job, like the electrician does his job and the hairdresser does her job. Let's all work together and make this happen, rather than have the star treatment. I don't do that.” DoeHappensTogetherJobsGuyStarsGoes OnTreatmentWorking TogetherMovie SetsHairdresserElectrician Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.” PeopleShouldArtSaidGuyPresidentChurchPayTvsGoes OnTaxesOrganizationCatholicLeagueOfficialsFundThis GuyTaxpayersCatholic Church Author:Fran Lebowitz
“It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay, here's where we are in the world. Now we're just going to go inside this person's head, this guy's heart, this woman's ambitions and take it down to very, very small scale."” KnowsWorldHeartPersonsImportantEnoughCharacterGuyGoes OnReaderAmbitionOkayScalesThis Guy Author:Don Winslow
“I think the number one public-relations blunder Osama has made is that he lives in a cave-fortress and if there's one thing we've learned from it's that you can't trust a guy who lives in a cave-fortress -- Lex Luther, Captain Nemo, Dr. Evil. I'm telling you the list goes on.” IfsThinkingMadeGuyEvilNumbersOne ThingGoes OnRelationListsCaptainsDrsCavesLutherPublic RelationsBlundersFortressesNemo Author:David Letterman
“For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly you're the guy who's asking your daughter, "When I go on Facebook, can it see me?"” UseJobsGuyProcessFictionStupidGoes OnDaughterAskingIphoneFiction WritersOur DaughterYour Daughter Author:George Saunders
“When I used to go on the Wikipedia page, and I haven't gone on the page in a while, there used to be some guy who was doing my page and he would say that he was my cousin and I was going to be doing projects with him. I don't know who this person is and I don't have a cousin by this name and this person keeps saying that they're doing projects with me. It's so weird.” KnowsPersonsUsedGuyNamesGoneHavensGoes OnProjectsPagesUsed To BeCousinWikipediaMy Cousin Author:Demetri Martin
“The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how to spin things and how to create doubt. Creating doubt around tobacco for fifty years when they absolutely knew it caused cancer, that was a real talent. But meanwhile, the scientists, they're not there to go on television. Their brains don't work like that.” KnowsTryingYearsRealGuyHoursBrainKnow HowDoubtWeekTalentTelevisionGoes OnCreatingScientistCancerFiftyTobaccoReal Talent Author:Robert Kenner
“The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be that stabbin Dilbert guy.” AgeGuyCasesKnowingDoubtCrimeGoes OnAgingDilbert Author:Scott Adams
“I never hesitated to promote someone I didn't like. The comfortable assistant - the nice guy you like to go on fishing trips with - is a great pitfall. Instead I looked for those sharp, scratchy, harsh, almost unpleasant guys who see and tell you about things as they really are. If you can get enough of them around you, and have patience enough to hear them out, there is no limit to where you can go.” IfsEnoughGuyWorkNiceGoes OnLimitsComfortableFishingHarshAssistantsNice GuyHaving PatiencePitfalls Author:Tom Watson
“We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.” EndsGuyActorsGoes OnHeroBe GoodShirtsBad GuysGood GuyTime Goes On Author:James Purefoy
“Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.” IfsWayKindNightGuyNextPresidentHalfFeetTvsGoes OnMetsThirtyFiftyShoreRopeDrowningHalf WayKissinger Author:Mort Sahl
“But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I felt that there was potential here to go on and write an engaging story set in that world. So that's what I did. This probably ruins things both for the people who want small literary novels and for those who want action-packed epics, but anyway, it's what I wrote.” PeopleWorldWantWritingFirstsKindStoriesActionGuyFeltNovelGoes OnCouplePagesHundredRuinsEpicEngaging Author:Neal Stephenson
“When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.” KnowsLittlesYoungGuyGoes OnTime Goes OnYoung Guys Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.” ThinkingMindReasonGuyFightingGoes OnBattle Author:Barry Zito
“I wish Elton Brand the best. He's a great guy. He's always going to be a great friend of mine, regardless of what goes on.” GuyWishMinesGoes OnBrandsGreat FriendGreat Guy Author:Baron Davis
“What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.” IfsSaidShowsGuyGirlGoes OnTattooYoutube Author:Barack Obama
“Now the guy that got to the top, the CEO, would obviously be stupid to have a number two guy who was a lot smarter than he is. So by definition, since he's a survivor and he got to the top and he isn't that brilliant, his number two guy is going to always be a little worse than he is. So, as time goes on, it's anti-Darwinism, the survival of the un- fittest.” LittlesTwoGuyNumbersStupidGoes OnSurvivalDefinitionsBrilliantSurvivorSmarterCeoDarwinismTime Goes OnTwo Guys Author:Carl Icahn
“I watch the best. I'm a big fan of Elvis. I'm a big fan of 1950s Elvis when he would go on stage and scare people because he was a force and girls would go nuts! You can say the same thing for Prince or The Police. It's just guys who know that people are here to see a show, so I watch those guys and I love studying them because I'm a fan.” PeopleKnowsShowsBigsGuyGirlForceWatchesStudyFansStageGoes OnPoliceScareNuts Author:Bruno Mars
“Nic is definitely a car guy because Nic and [William] Fichtner and Billy, these guys go on and on about the cars. So we had no choice but to do our research and get everything right because they were going to nail us if we didn't.” IfsGuyChoicesCarGoes OnResearchNails Author:Todd Farmer
“People like B.B. King told me I was a `star` and told me I was `the future of blues` - and Buddy Guy, too, ... They told me, `You`re it, son; go on out there.” PeopleGuyStarsSonGoes OnKingsBuddy Author:Larry Coryell
“And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a larger-than-life tough-guy figure. He doesn't go on photographed hunting expeditions, for instance. But he does have hero moments, such as when his convoy stopped in the middle of the Bosphorus Bridge and he allegedly talked down a jumper, prevented him from committing suicide.” MayDoeMomentsCharacterWould BeGuyBitsEnjoyPresidentMiddleFiguresGoes OnHeroToughSuicideInstanceBridgesHuntingReformersExpeditionsLarger Than LifeTough GuyCommitting SuicideJumpersErdoganBosphorus Author:Peter Kenyon
“I'm just really not even that huge of a UFC fan. If you go on my Instagram or Twitter, you will notice ... people that I've actually met and hung out with, you know, I'm not like a huge UFC guy.” PeopleIfsKnowsGuyFansHugeGoes OnMetsHungInstagramUfc Author:Jon Jones
“We went on tour with Phoenix. I don't really know anything about Phoenix I'd heard a couple songs. And I thought, I don't really know if I want to go on this, it's kind of weird, kind of a pain in the ass for us. But everyone was like YOU HAVE TO DO IT, it's going to be so good for your career. And I mean I don't know if it was good for our career but the guys in the band were super huge sweethearts.” IfsKnowsWantKindMeanPainGuySongCareersHeardHugeLike YouGoes OnCoupleBandAssPhoenixSweetheart Author:Mac DeMarco
“There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing, they're very self-confident, and they have an answer to everything - a crazy answer, but it's an answer. And it's our fault if that goes on. So one thing to be done is don't ridicule these people, join them, and talk about their real grievances and give them a sensible answer, like, "Take over your factories."” PeopleIfsGivingRealSelfDoneGuySoundAnswersOne ThingCrazyGoes OnLogicFaultsInternalsOver YouSensibleFactoriesRidiculeConvincingGrievanceCoherenceSelf Confident Author:Noam Chomsky
“You don't want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.” IfsWorldWantRunningGuyFightingMissingGoes OnPicksWithout You Author:Bob Goff
“Sometimes I would go on Sundays and play with Doc Cheatham. I was also playing in a band of teenagers led by Don Sickler called Young Sounds, and The McDonald's Big Band led by Rich De Rosa and Justin Di Cioccio. All those guys were great educators and musicians and taught me a lot! Simultaneous to all this, another one of my musical fathers came into my life, Eddie Locke.” SometimesPlayBigsYoungGuyFatherSoundRichTaughtGoes OnBandMusicianMusicalTeenagerSundayEducatorMcdonaldsJustinRosaSimultaneous Author:Jon Gordon
“I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.” WellsGuyClassGoes OnLike MeDietsSpinningMidwest Author:Michael Moore
“There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.” IfsYearsRealGuyFoundGoes OnDrinkTasteFatsBeerDietsWhiskeyHookedScotchDrinking WhiskeyWhiskey DrinkingTequilaScotch WhiskeyScotch Whisky Author:Ron White
“I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.” PeopleRealWould BeAgeWantedGuyFallGoes OnMusicianFalling In LoveHanging OutPhasesDaddyReal Relationship Author:Olivia Wilde
“I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.” WantI CanSoulGuyGoes OnMy SoulJumping Book:On the Road Source: On the Road