Alice Miller Quotes
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
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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 airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
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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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In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
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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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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.
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If Michael, leader of God's host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post He would his deeds forget.
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And yet despite the expansiveness of Barak’s offer, Arafat did not simply reject Barak’s offer; he refused even to make a counteroffer, signaling that he and the Palestinians were not interested in making peace with Israel. They indicated instead that it would be impossible for Israel to satisfy their demands and still exist as a nation.
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They make you and you have no say in it. It’s w:Godot all the time. A chain around your neck and the whip cracking behind you.
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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
