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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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 recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.
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I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.
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When I heard the Beatles, I thought thats it. That's what I want to be. I want to be a Beatle.
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When I see players like Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Robinson Cano, and Miguel Cabrera, I see they have a good season, but they also jump up the next year and do it over and over again. I want to be one of those players that do it every year.
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I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.
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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
