Quotes with demanding

  • Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

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  • Mary Daly A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
    Mary Daly
    American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian (1928 - 2010)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Cate Blanchett As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bobby Flay Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Anna C. Brackett He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
    Anna C. Brackett
    American philosopher and feminist
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  • Ben Shapiro Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, she's harsh and demanding. According to those who haven't - like her husband - she's a delight.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Ann Coulter If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bob Knight If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Bryan Burrough Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Campbell Brown Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Oswald Spengler Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.
    Oswald Spengler
    German philosopher of history and historian (1880 - 1936)
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  • Blake Farenthold My subcommittee will be thoroughly investigating this issue and demanding answers from Census officials on allegations that the Census Bureau is changing the wording of survey questions used to determine our nation's annual report on health insurance coverage.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Ann Landers No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alexander Pope Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bing Gordon The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Robin Morgan There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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  • Ayn Rand What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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