Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Carrie-Anne Moss People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Ban Ki-moon People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Francis Bacon People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bode Miller People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Alan Kay People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
    Alan Kay
    American computer scientist (1940 - )
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  • Bill Hybels People who are serious about something always make room for it in their schedules. If prayer is important to you, then you'll find time to do it.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • James Baldwin People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
    Doom and glory of knowing who you are
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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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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  • Stephen Hawking People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bodhidharma People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Stephen R. Covey People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ''being lived.'' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false; a gift confers no rights.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Jeremy Collier People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Bryan Fuller People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Norman Douglas People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Anton Chekhov People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Aharon Appelfeld People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Oscar Wilde People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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