Highly Quotes
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph W. Sockman
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Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one`s status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one`s inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, th...
Lao Tzu
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed
John Fowles
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Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate
Dave Barry
Keywords: activity :: addictive :: an :: and :: are :: because :: cannot :: corporations :: engage :: habitually :: highly :: in :: indulgent :: large :: masturbate :: meetings :: only :: organizations :: other :: self :: that :: theySubject: Meetings QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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In those days, trousers were appallingly cut for women so I used to go to a gentlemen`s tailor to have them made. Nowadays you can look at some quite highly priced clothes and be astonished at how badly they are finished. But then, people don`t look for t...
Diana Rigg
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[On being voted 1999`s coolest couple with Natalie Appleton, by Elle magazine] I thought, `this is just too funny`. Then, they read my name out and it was highly embarrassing.
Jonny Miller
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I think of myself as a highly sexual creature. I have to use that. I have no choice. I like it. I didn`t grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.
Charlize Theron
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All day long you`re really leading up to the evening`s performance. To time everything correctly, you have to take care of yourself-which is a very difficult thing to do, because it`s highly emotional
Vivien Leigh
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[From an interview about the late Graham Chapman]: "He always regarded death as highly overrated and could never understand why anybody made such a fuss about it."
Michael Palin
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[on Kirk Douglas] We both came from, sort of, well, shall we say, humble beginnings. We were both young, brash, cocky, arrogant. We knew everything, were highly opinionated. We were invincible. Nobody liked us.
Burt Lancaster
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(On his character in "The Shield" (2002)) "I`m always blown away by people`s negative reactions to Kavanaugh. He`s a highly moral man who`s brought to the breaking point. To me, he`s like an angel. Yes, he`s obsessive. Anal. Intense. But his goal is to ge...
Forest Whitaker
Keywords: 2002 :: always :: an :: anal :: angel :: away :: blown :: breaking :: brought :: but :: by :: character :: get :: goal :: he :: highly :: his :: in :: intense :: is :: kavanaugh :: like :: mackey :: man :: me :: moral :: negative :: obsessive :: of :: on :: people :: point :: reactions :: shield :: the :: to :: vic :: who :: yesSource: imdb.com
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[on Lauren Bacall] `Betty` Bacall was the perfect mate for Bogey [Humphrey Bogart] -- beautiful, fair, warm, talented and highly intelligent. She gave as good as she got in the strong personality department. Women and men love her with equal devotion.
David Niven
Keywords: and :: as :: bacall :: beautiful :: betty :: bogart :: bogey :: department :: devotion :: equal :: fair :: for :: gave :: good :: got :: her :: highly :: humphrey :: in :: intelligent :: lauren :: love :: mate :: men :: on :: perfect :: personality :: she :: strong :: talented :: the :: warm :: was :: with :: womenSource: imdb.com
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[on actress Ann Harding] The pretty and highly regarded Ann Harding, a woman of great charm, integrity and beauty.
Laurence Olivier
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I think I`m highly normal. I`m attending school after acting, I`m going out with friends, going to the cinema - I`m just doing everything a normal teenager does. People think I can`t leave the house without being in a crowd of fans - but that`s not true. ...
Daniel Radcliffe
Keywords: able :: acting :: after :: attending :: being :: but :: can :: cinema :: crowd :: does :: doing :: everything :: fans :: friends :: going :: highly :: house :: in :: just :: leave :: normal :: not :: of :: out :: people :: school :: teenager :: that :: the :: think :: to :: true :: with :: withoutSource: imdb.com
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[Accepting his UCLA Tracy award]: "To be included among this group of highly accomplished actors is just magical."
Morgan Freeman
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The thing that`s bad about breasts is that you have to choose between having a mind and having breasts. It`d be nice if you could have both. Anyway, I think my breasts have been highly overrated.
Susan Sarandon
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[on Clark Gable] Clark Gable was highly professional. He was a bigger star than we can create today. I was just a mini-star when we did "Gone With the Wind." I was afraid to talk to him. People can`t understand it now, but we were in awe. Clark Gable didn...
Olivia De Havilland
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What is there now? Famous people running away from explosions. That`s it. They call it production values. Audiences will queue round the block to see an unimaginably highly-paid film star running away from a fantastically expensive explosion. They think i...
Richard E. Grant
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I had given him the role and had paid him a terrific amount of money. It was obvious he had the better role. I thought he would understand that, but he apparently thought he acted me off the screen. I didn`t think highly of him for that. - On Robert Mitch...
Gregory Peck
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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it`s no problem for me to believe I`m somebody else.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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Austin Powers was born out of trying to celebrate my father`s life. My father`s favorites were mine -- Peter Sellers, Monty Python, Peter Cook, and Dudley Moore...My dad was a guy who loved to be silly; he had a highly prized sense of humor. When I would ...
Mike Myers
Keywords: and :: austin :: be :: born :: bring :: celebrate :: cook :: dad :: dudley :: father :: favorites :: frien :: guy :: had :: he :: highly :: humor :: life :: loved :: mine :: monty :: moore :: my :: of :: out :: peter :: powers :: prized :: python :: sellers :: sense :: silly :: to :: trying :: was :: were :: when :: who :: wouldSource: imdb.com
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You needn`t tell me that a man who doesn`t love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He`s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Hector Hugh Munro
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While I agree that all emergency personnel should be highly trained, this is simply beyond the scope of what we can do in rural communities.
Kent Conrad
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where there`s a pattern that`s complex in a certain highly ordered way, so that it`s best explained as a product of an intelligent cause. The other side says that`s a code word for G-O-D. Well, that may or may not be the case.
Ariana Speyer
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When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information.
Allen Spelce
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What I think is highly inappropriate is what`s going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that`s quite outrageous.
Tom Brokaw
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Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they`re sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.
Sydney Pollack
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We`ve had several issues over the years of what appeared to be racial discrimination against black voters and the Justice Department has yet to come in and do a thorough investigation. And for them to take on this case is highly unusual and very suspect.
Andy Ford
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We`re highly sexed people
Paul Hunter
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We`re always happy to be highly placed by any ranking, and we are very proud of our academic programs. But we always question whether rankings alone are enough for anyone to judge the quality of an institution.
Rick Moore
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