Alice Miller Quotes
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Quotes to Explore
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Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.
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I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.
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All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.
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I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.
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Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
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I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff. Now the irony is here I am lawyer, accountant, I do it all day every day and sit at a desk. So I've never ended up where I wanted to be in many ways. I always wanted to be a farmer.
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Not all knowledge comes from college.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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My fingertips are my favorite makeup brush! I especially like to apply my eye shadow with them, get it nice and smudgy. All my favorite makeup artists used their fingers to apply and their hand as a palette.
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To this day I still watch tons of horror.
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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
