Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Theodore Roosevelt I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Alice Walker I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Albert Ellis I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.
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  • Glenda Jackson I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Orson Welles I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Stephen Hawking I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
    Interview ABC News 7 June 2010
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Anthony Hopkins I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.
    Anthony Hopkins
    Welsh and American actor (1937 - )
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  • Andy Hertzfeld I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Edward Gibbon I was never less alone than when by myself.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Margaret Mitchell I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Bill Hicks I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great. He goes, What? I'm 28.
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Francis Bacon I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Kin Hubbard I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Nicholas Breton I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of fiends, and empty purse.
    Nicholas Breton
    English poet and novelist (1545 - 1626)
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Aaron McGruder I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
    The Boondocks
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Edith Wharton I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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