"Part of the job of being human is……" — Lucy Grealy
"Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people..."
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17 Quotes by Lucy Grealy
Lucy Grealy has 17 quotes on this site.
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When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without…
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Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain…
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I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my…
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I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever,…
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I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated…
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While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as…
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I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
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All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.
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Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being…
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Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of…
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I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty…
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Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.
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More Consistently Quotes
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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from…
— Roseanne Barr
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The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's…
— Mario Batali
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth…
— Jeremy Bentham
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I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You…
— Maya Angelou
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You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The Bible consistently denies free will.
— Gordon Clark
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We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands…
— Ronald Reagan
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Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing -…
— Lance Secretan
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When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.
— Sun Tzu
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The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that…
— Daniel Roberts
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