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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
It was a feeling of loyalty to our own sex and an enthusiasm to have every degradation that was put upon our sex removed.
Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.
The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.
I have always dreamt of going to an Olympics and watching these incredible athletes and being motivated and inspired to want to be successful in my own sport.
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.
Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.
I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.
How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.
When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe.
A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.
My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
As far as 'Dahmer' and 'Jumanji' are concerned, with both of them, they felt super raw and affecting, but in their own ways. I also thought 'Jumanji' was completely not trying to be anything except what it was, and I found it to be hilarious.
I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.
I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.
If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.
Every player has their own story, but I always thought of playing on my estate with dreams of what I might be able to achieve.
Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.
Understand that nutrition plays a huge role in athletes' lives, and one of the most nutritious ways to eat is to cook your own food.
Madison Avenue makes us addicts of consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own lives.
You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
On a plane, you're in your own little bubble, so I try and enjoy it and don't get worried or frustrated about delays.
One day, I would like to have my own chat show. Oprah is my idol because she uses her platform so responsibly.
I work with the people in the piazza, where there is reality. Here in Parliament, often there is a mystification of reality. They are not representatives of the people. They represent themselves and their own interests.
I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!
Because Genentech is a leading developer of cancer therapies, some doctors also fear that the company's pricing plans for Avastin - around $8,800 a month - may encourage other companies to charge more for their own oncology drugs.
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.
Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?
First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway. It's actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid.
Argentina should grow with a project of its own and implemented by Argentines, not dictated by foreigners with old recipes that always fail.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
It's fine to have armed guards, but don't then tell everyone else they can't own a gun.
It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.
You have to be able to invest in your own creations, to suspend your own disbelief in order to be able to write them. We all have to draw the line somewhere.
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.
Being bootstrapped is great. You own 100 percent of it. But the downside is that you aren't able to move as fast as you want.
On Imgur, introverts can be extroverts. They don't have to worry about curating their own brand and are able to express themselves more authentically. They can go on Imgur and be themselves.
I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.
For John Woo, it is quite difficult to make a movie in Hollywood in his own style. Because Hollywood is based on a producer system, it is difficult for a director to express himself using his own style of filmmaking.
I'm not intimidated by embracing a familiar form and what's familiar about it and making it my own. It is, I think, one of my gifts.
I'm a very style-driven composer, and I like to give every project its own unique stamp.
Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.
I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.
From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility to employ production facilities other than one's own, then the concept of capacity is vaguer.
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.
My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.
Young people are choosing cities before the country - they have their own ranking.
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in.
I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.
I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.
A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens.
So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.
My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.
At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.
Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.
I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.
I'm surrounded by geniuses, which is really not good for my own personal self-esteem!
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