Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Bill Cosby People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • James Baldwin People can cry much easier than they can change.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Samuel Butler People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Adam Garcia People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.
    Adam Garcia
    Australian actor (1973 - )
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  • Robert Keith Leavitt People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
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  • Adrian Edmondson People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Bob Newhart People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Beau Willimon People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bode Miller People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw.
    People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Caroline B. Cooney People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.
    Caroline B. Cooney
    American author
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  • Tryon Edwards People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bruce Forsyth People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Richard J. Needham People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
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  • Albert Bandura People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Vaclav Havel People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Calvin Klein People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • James Baldwin People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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