Quotes 501 till 520 of 655.
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The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
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The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.
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The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.
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There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
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