Jeanette Winterson Quotes
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.
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My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.
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If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
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When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
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Wittgenstein's ruler: 'Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.' (page 224)
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I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts, whether the parents are citizens or aliens, is a natural born citizen in the sense of the Constitution, and entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining to that capacity.
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I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want.
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So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience.
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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
