Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Rex Steven Sikes What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think ''I can't.''
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  • Bernie Sanders What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Camille Paglia What troubles me about the hostile workplace category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein What unites Sanders, McCarthy, McGovern and Reagan is the unmistakable clarity of their moral convictions, their tendency to outrage, and their insistence that the United States needs to embark on a whole new path.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Edgar Quinet What we share with another ceases to be our own.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Mario Puzo What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Aldous Huxley What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Robert Stone What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.
    Robert Stone
     
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  • Bill Gates What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • A. Brisbane Whatever good there is in small boys is usually based upon their admiration for girls of their own age.
    A. Brisbane
     
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  • Evelyn Ashford Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.
    Evelyn Ashford
    American athlete (1957 - )
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  • Marilyn French Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Brian Tracy Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Sydney Smith Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Phyllis Diller Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
    Phyllis Diller
    American actress and stand-up (1917 - 2012)
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  • Bethany Hamilton Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting on your butt and moping around.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Bill Engvall When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but they didn't know what to do with us. They had 'Reba,' which was number one, and we were number two, and they didn't want to be known as the hayseed network, so they kind of dropped us, even though we were pulling great numbers.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Horace Mann When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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