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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.


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I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.
Tyson Gay
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He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.
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Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.


Elizabeth Gilbert
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Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.
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I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player.
Carmelo Anthony
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The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
Martin Seligman
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I've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.


Martha Wainwright
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I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to debate me. Because I think that both of those guys - I think that the American people are being given a false choice, because the choice between the lesser of two evils is a false choice.
Roseanne Barr
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It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, 'This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.' And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.
Hugh Grant
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Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.


Billy Graham
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Men tend to be selfish.


Caprice Bourret
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Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
Epicurus
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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
Octave Mirbeau
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I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Cynthia and I are very alike in our tastes.


Kent McCord
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I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.


Melanie Roach
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Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.


Athol Fugard
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.


William Cowper