Thomas More Quotes
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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I am happy in Paris.
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If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.
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I am a woman above everything else.
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We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.
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Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:
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The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
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If you want to buy my wares Follow me and climb the stairs … Love for sale.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.
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Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
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When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.
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We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.
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A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.
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What the American people understand is that I look at what we need to get done to keep the American people safe and to move our interests forward, and I make those decisions.
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I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.
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I don't care what people think of me or for what reason they think of me. I don't feel like I don't know who I am to the degree that I have to change my hair to create a new me.
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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
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It's not even so much about publicity, it's more just letting people know that things are available, because books aren't a flash in the pan thing. It's more like: "It took 20 years for this book to be done and now it'll be on a shelf for 20 years until the right person finds it."
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Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
