Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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• Humiliation

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• I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.

  

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• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  

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• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  

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• I don't think I have a black-hat image.

  

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• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

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• The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.

  

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• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

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• That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

  

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• Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

  

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• The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

  

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• Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

  

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• My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.

  

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• Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

  

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• In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

  

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• Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery.

  

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• I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.

  

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• Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.

  

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• I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

  

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• I can't tell my people that you will get power only from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., and after that, we live in darkness. You need 24-hour power; you need a baseload, and that baseload for India is coal. We are looking at clean coal technologies to reduce the impact of pollution.

  

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• My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

  

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• Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

  

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• Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Freedom
  • Anger
  • Humiliation