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1244 Showing quotes by 1028 unique authors
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I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in…
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the…
— Eric Hoffer
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Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store…
— Erich Fromm
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There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.
— Glenn Close
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People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.
— Juliana Hatfield
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Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.
— Robert Breault
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned…
— Andre Gide
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The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have…
— Samuel Johnson
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The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be…
— Helen Fielding
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For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing…
— Ted Allen
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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had…
— Henry James
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I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge…
— Paula Cole
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I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done…
— Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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I don't like showing the technique. I don't like people who say, "Here, I'm going to act, but first I have to bounce off this…
— Clint Eastwood
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One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view, and these characters can convince…
— Richard Madden
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Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of…
— Pranab Mukherjee
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I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can…
— Meshell Ndegeocello
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But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the…
— Steve Almond
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I've never really been one of those girls who's scared of showing a bit of flesh.
— Anna Paquin
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I really don't have a problem showing the ugly side of people. If that means my wearing no makeup, that's fine. To me, that's beautiful.
— Amy Ryan
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There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the…
— Condoleezza Rice
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Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that…
— Phylicia Rashad
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