Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • George Bernard Shaw I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Harold Pinter I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • Jung Chang I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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  • Peter Ackroyd I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Edgar W. Howe I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Paul Auster I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Bryce Harper I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Burn Gorman I think it makes a difference when the actors are enjoying it more than anything because we have a real blast on 'Torchwood.'
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Tiger Woods I think it's an honor to be a role model to one person or maybe more than that. If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
    Tiger Woods
    American professional golfer (1975 - )
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  • Lucille Ball I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Ace Frehley I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Bill Murray I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
    Interview with Jessica Lee Jernigan (May 1999)
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Atom Egoyan I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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