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You have to hold onto your fantasy.


Betsey Johnson
Tags: You Your Hold
Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.
Jakob Bohme
A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
Augustus Hare
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
Hari Kunzru
It's fun to perform Bernie Sanders and give his boring percentages and fact-based points to address some ridiculous Trumpisms, because that was always my fantasy for what the general election would look like.
James Adomian
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp
In my opinion, what 'The Evil Dead' is to horror, 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' is to action-fantasy, with these horror elements and a steampunk-y twist.
Derek Mears
Tags: Dead Opinion Evil
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I'm very pessimistic.


B. F. Skinner
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I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.


Ivan Turgenev
Tags: Some Own My Own
Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?'
Brandon Sanderson
Tags: People Just Had
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.


Samuel Butler
Tags: Will He Own
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Everyone takes pictures, so you need to have your own opinion.


Rene Burri
Tags: You Your Own
The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.
Susie Orbach
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I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.


Robert MacNeil
Tags: Think I Think Own
I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.
Willard Wigan
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.


Karel Reisz
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I wasn't a very convenient person for the leadership. I had my own opinion about things and knew how to insist on this.
Gherman Titov
Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.
Bo Bennett
Tags: Every Any Economy
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
Richard Eyre
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From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.


Eduardo Galeano
Tags: Then Am I Am