Quotes with up-their-own-butt

Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 4570.

  • Beau Willimon It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Audre Lorde It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Anthony Weiner It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's less likely we have immigration problems here.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Gore Vidal It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Bram Cohen It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Brendan Myers It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bianca Kajlich It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.
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  • Ben Simmons It's great to be compared to a great player like Tracy McGrady, but I think I'm my own type of player. I'm 6'10'' and a bit bigger than he is as a player. I also think I'm a bit different and play a different position. He's more of a guard, and I can play all around through five.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Brene Brown It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Phil McGraw It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.
    Phil McGraw
    American television personality and author (1950 - )
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  • Charles Dickens It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Carlisle Floyd It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Kingsley Amis It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Golda Meir It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • M. R. Dehaan It's not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.
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  • Barack Obama It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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