“ A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
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“ There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early. ”
- Marcel Achard- Copy
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“ It's a deceptive and deceitful campaign,... Domestic violence is not on the ballot. Alcohol is not on the ballot. Marijuana is on the ballot. ”
- Charlie Brown- Copy
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“ Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
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“ You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible. ”
- Klaus Kinski- Copy
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“ I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement, But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happened. I think the world would be a much nicer place. ”
- Quinlan Terry- Copy
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“ I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die. ”
- Georges Bernanos- Copy
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“ No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors. ”
- Tom Thompson- Copy
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“ I love that it's a risky and strange comedy. And it's one of those movies that hasn't been shredded by the studio system and watered down. ”
- Val Kilmer- Copy
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“ I let the cast improvise a lot, especially with the slang, where they would say 'g and t' for gin and tonic. I wouldn't say that. I would say 'dicey' when they would say 'dodgy.' I learnt a lot. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us. ”
- Al Lopez- Copy
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“ There is no Heaven, there is no Hell; These are the dreams of baby minds; Tools of the wily Fetisheer, To fright the fools his cunning blinds. ”
- Richard Burton- Copy
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“ There are some among us who say our neighbor only understands the language of violence,... It is easy to say 'jihad,' but actual implementation is very complicated, very hard, and too risky. ”
- Dalai Lama- Copy
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“ Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade. ”
- Al Alvarez- Copy
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“ With the cooling U.S. economy and a series of profit warnings from tech firms both at home and abroad, high tech shares appear too risky at the moment to handle. ”
- Junichiro Koizumi- Copy
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“ Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. ”
- Earl Nightingale- Copy
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“ What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy. ”
- Tom Cruise- Copy
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“ What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. ”
- Lillian Hellman- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. ”
- Pierre Charron- Copy
- 1.5K
“ It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 3.5K
“ My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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