A Quote by Alain de Botton

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

Alain de Botton

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Alain de Botton
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Born: December 20, 1969

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere - and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

Alain de Botton

Machismo requires Latin blood. I'd say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee filter in comparison.

Rosecrans Baldwin

So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared?

Joe Carnahan

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

Rosecrans Baldwin

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

John Darnielle

I was born in Delhi but grew up in Chandigarh, so I write about the machismo of Punjab because it was around me.

Badshah

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

Mason Cooley

Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.

Mason Cooley

All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.

Martin Luther

We are sometimes so overawed by flamboyance and machismo that we forget to ask ourselves how we treat others.

Vikrant Massey

I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I'm kind of the sissy in my family.

Nick Offerman

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

Eduardo Galeano

When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.

Elif Safak

If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.

David Mitchell

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

Jimmy Buffett

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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