Quotes with comfort-killing

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  • Billy Wilder Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • John Lennon I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
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    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bronson Pinchot I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.
    Bronson Pinchot
    American actor (1959 - )
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  • Albert Ellis I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • William Butler Yeats I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Adele I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Sebastian Faulks I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.
    Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Charles Dickens I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Lord George Byron I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Adam Faith I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!.
    Adam Faith
    English teen idol, singer, actor and financial journalist (1940 - 2003)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • George Eliot I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Jean Cocteau If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • William Somerset Maugham If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barry Sternlicht If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Al Sharpton If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Robert Cringely If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
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