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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The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
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Speculators buy the trend; investors are in for the long haul; "they are a different breed of cats." One reason that people lose money today is that they have lost sight of this distinction; they profess to have the long term in mind and yet cannot resist following where the hot money has led.
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Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, some people call me Mayer, some people call me Haircut.
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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
