Thomas More Quotes
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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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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I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy!
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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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I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
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It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.
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Failure turns into success. It looks like it happens overnight to other people, but it's just one person's determination to get past a certain goal. Everybody thinks it's an overnight success, but it's not. It's something someone has been working very, very hard on, and more than likely, has been too embarrassed to tell anybody. No one really wants to show other people their failures. They want to show their success.
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Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
