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“To say that people around the world deserve the same, the same life that we have in the United States, the same freedoms that we have, that seems to me, humble. I think it's humble to say that the United States, which has been given so much, should give back.”

People Thinking World Giving Should Has Beens States Seems Given United United States Deserve Humble Around The World Giving Back

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don't deserve the same rights, you are different and you are not equal, it feels really bad.”

Ifs Feels Different Feelings Voice Situation Rights Equal Deserve Loud Giants Loud Voices

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Regardless of how you feel about peak oil or global warming, the increased use of natural gas is a positive thing because it is being found at a rate that is faster than that of new oil reserves, it is relatively abundant, and our reserves are longer lived than our oil reserves... It does not get the kind of attention it deserves.”

Feels Kind Doe Use Found Natural Attention Deserve Rate Oil Faster Global Warming Gas Reserves How You Feel Positive Things Natural Gas Peak Oil

Author:Robert Bryce

“A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.”

Joy Deserve Pregnancy Unplanned Pregnancy

Author:Patricia Heaton

“The most common reason that I turn down a film project is because of my schedule. If I can't devote the time to a score that it deserves, I'll pass. I'll also turn down a film if its moral position is different than what my own understanding of right and wrong.”

Ifs I Can Different Reason Film Turns Understanding My Own Common Moral Position Projects Deserve Score Schedules

Author:John Keltonic

“Acting is primarily is where I want to go. But seeing how the visual effects guys work, and the special effects guys and the art department guys, how they work and seeing their visions is really interesting. I don't think those guys get the recognition they deserve.”

Thinking Want Art Guy Interesting Acting Vision Seeing Special Effects Deserve Recognition Visuals Department Really Interesting Special Effects Visual Effects

Author:James Phelps

“I'm a very lucky person. I'm an idiot, and I've shoveled through life rather nicely so far, so I don't feel like I deserve good treatment.”

Feels Persons Lucky Deserve Idiot Treatment Lucky Person

Author:John Mulaney

“The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition; and may therefore deserve to be considered, as a singular event in the history of the human mind.”

Mind Humans May Age Events Example Deserve Ancient Ruins Human Mind Superstitions Paganism

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“There is no way that carrying fifty or sixty extra pounds is easy on your heart, your lungs, or your liver. That's a fact. Every person in the world, no matter what size, shape, or form they are, deserves respect and love. But that doesn't mean we are supposed to pretend that something is healthy when in fact it is not.”

World Way Heart Mean Persons Matter Facts Form Easy Healthy Shapes Deserve And Love No Matter What Size Extras Fifty Pounds Sixty Lungs Liver Love And Respect

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I realized that it's my own fault that people take advantage of me. I should be around people who cherish my talents, my health, my time. I'm not a pawn for anyone's future business. I'm an artist. I deserve better than to be loyal to people who only believe in me because I make money.”

People Should Believe Artist My Own Talent Deserve Advantage Faults I Realized Making Money My Time Cherish Loyal Believe In Me Pawns Deserve Better Future Business

Author:Lady Gaga

“The idea of being given things that you don't necessarily deserve was always a difficult one for me to negotiate, and so I really always felt that I had to prove myself. Being the daughter of a famous man I guess is more easy than being the daughter of a famous woman, but at the same time there was a sense of really, with me, of wanting to earn my own way.”

Men Way Ideas Given Felt Easy Difficult My Own Prove Daughter Deserve Famous Women Prove Myself One For Me

Author:Anjelica Huston

“I don't begrudge anyone else for anything, but to me, I think the fans deserve to have a studio put money behind their product because when the fans put money into a project and it makes any sort of money, it goes back to the studio. I think that's a little shady.”

Thinking Littles Behinds Fans Products Projects Deserve Studios Shady

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.”

Millions Shots Deserve Convinced Criminals Agents Thieves Cia Scoundrels Cia Agents

Author:Anatoly Chubais

“We shouldn't want things and we should be satisfied with no thing. Furthermore, we don't deserve whatever we would like to have in our lives because we think we have been bad, we feel insufficient, or somebody else has convinced us that we're not worthy.”

Thinking Want Feels Should Has Beens Our Lives Deserve Worthy Convinced Satisfied Insufficient Not Worthy

Author:Wayne Dyer

“If you start hustling then don't pay a person what they deserve, pay them what they accept. That's good business. Even if you're not hustlin' pay them what they accept because you can capitalize off of people.”

People Ifs Persons Pay Accepting Deserve Hustle Good Business

Author:Curtis Jackson

“Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals are made of flesh and blood like us, that they suffer the same pains as us, that they deserve the same respect as us and that their continuous slaughter should not be part of human entertainment.”

Knows Needs Should Humans Made Helping Pain Suffering Animal Blood Limits Deserve Entertainment Flesh Helping Others Cruelty Iron Immense Slaughter Flesh And Blood Human Cruelty

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.”

Ifs Deserve Weak Brave Destroyed Knees Ahimsa

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“God Himself heals the proud. This means that inner sorrows (by which pride is healed) are sent to us by God, for the proud man will not suffer anything from others. But the humble person will endure everything, and will always say, 'I deserve this.'”

Men Mean Persons Christian Suffering Pride Proud Sorrow Deserve Endure Humble Heal Orthodox Healed Proud Man Humble Person

Author:Ambrose of Optina

“If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.”

Ifs Mean Deserve Destroyed Wheels Spinning

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.”

May God Deserve Praise Debt Praise God Repayment

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.”

Difficult Sides Violence Judging Succeed Weapons Deserve Both Sides Employing

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.”

Thinking Important Violence Possibility Deserve Hatred Victim Refuse Innocent Pursue Innocence Naive Genesis Naivete

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Trump's immigration positions do not deserve a response because they are so outlandish. If you force me to give you three words to describe them they would be: ludicrous, impractical and racist.”

Ifs Giving Would Be Three Force Position Trump Deserve Response Immigration Racist Three Words Outlandish

Author:Bill Richardson

“White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.”

People White Acting Deserve Very Good Racist Awards Academy Academy Awards

Author:Paul Mooney

“New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren't. Fight back.”

Fighting Difficult Technology Sea Produce Demand Deserve Victim Careful Dry Convince Pirate Drains New Technology Abolition Copyright Weakening Navigation Sophistry

Author:Mark Helprin

“Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.”

Wisdom Wise Deserve Venus In Furs

Book:Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja

Source: Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja

“I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.”

People Knows Children Suffering Culture Given Parent My Own Duty Deserve Treated African American Grandparent Honored American Culture Very Deep Parents And Grandparents African American Culture

Author:Alice Walker

“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.”

Duty Ought Deserve Praise

Author:Saint Augustine

“Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have actual stone diamonds, I think when we look at ourselves we should refer to ourselves as a precious stone.”

Ifs Thinking Should Looks Deserve Stones Diamond Precious Stones

Author:Nia Long

“If I'm having a fancy glass of champagne, I'll always mix it with the champagne of beers. Because I deserve all the champagnes.”

Ifs Humor Funny Deserve Glasses Beer Fancy Champagne

Author:Kristen Schaal

“More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.”

People Courses Ability Rights Deserve Conservative Gender Norm Trans Advocacy Portrayal

Author:Dean Spade

“I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the masters like Rembrandt, who built up the surface of the canvas with transparent layers.”

Want Giving Past Painting Masters Deserve Built Roots Importance Including Surface Abandon Layers Canvas Transparent My Past

Author:Jose Parla

“If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.””

Ifs Giving Believe Said Values Business Equal Deserve Priorities Being True Saving If You Believe

Author:Bill Gates

“Our kids are our future. They deserve every possible opportunity to start their day with enthusiasm, encouragement and food in their stomachs. Protecting human rights of every man, woman and child is fundamental. Kids cannot protect themselves. It's up to us to ensure they have what they need to be all they can possibly be.”

Men Needs Humans Children Kids Opportunity Rights Protect Deserve Encouragement Fundamentals Human Rights Every Man Enthusiasm Our Future Men Women

Author:Arlene Dickinson

“The limitations of federal laws are able to create real progress at the local level. Ultimately, to effect not just incremental progress but progress that is transformational for students, we need committed leadership - people who believe deeply that their students can achieve at the highest levels and who know how to create the conditions at the classroom, school and system level to give them the opportunities they deserve.”

People Knows Needs Giving Believe Real Able School Law Opportunity Levels Know How Progress Achieve Conditions Effects Students Highest Deserve Committed Locals Limitation Classroom

Author:Wendy Kopp

“People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.”

People Sometimes Names Issues Pure Research Deserve Technological Scientific Research

Author:George Coyne

“Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for. Don't do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose.”

Ifs Feels Believe Ends I Believe Loses Like You Computer Conscience Deserve Program Grateful Plus Be Grateful Columns Minus

Author:Jim Carrey

“Love is giving someone what they need most, when they deserve it least, at great personal cost to yourself.”

Inspirational Needs Giving Religious Love Is Cost Deserve Great Person

Author:Chip Ingram

“Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.”

World Needs Ends Sometimes Helping Nations Deserve The End Of The Day Ukraine

Author:Marvin Kalb

“I think I'm someone who is really prone to melancholy, and the super heavy, thick shows kind of spiral me out into not being able to be as happy a person as I think I deserve to be, so I tend to watch things like 30 Rock and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Anything Tina Fey's involved in. And Parks and Rec. I love comedies!”

Thinking Kind Persons Shows Able Watches Comedy Rocks Involved Deserve Heavy Parks Melancholy Thick Spirals Unbreakable Fey Schmidt Parks And Rec

Author:Sara Bareilles

“Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness.”

Made Past Names My Own Creation Youth Greatness Respect Deserve Made It Admiration

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“Don't you know alcohol kills brain cells...any damn brain cell that can't live through a good drunk deserves to die. You're doing yourself a favour, getting rid of all them nonhacking, underachieving ones. I'm working on improving your efficiency.”

Knows Dies Brain Deserve Alcohol Drunk Cells Beer Damn Efficiency Improving Favour Brain Cells Underachieving

Author:James E. Webb

“Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.”

Deserve Servant Indifference Apathy Scorn Public Servants

Author:Adlai Stevenson I

“I can't bring myself to believe in a God with a personality like my own. I base that on the paucity of lightning attacks on people who deserve it.”

People Believe I Can God My Own Personality Deserve Lightning

Book:Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

“I believe in karma... that means i can do bad things to you all day long and assume you deserve it.”

Believe Mean Long I Can I Believe Can Do Deserve Assuming I Believe In Karma Bad Things I Believe In Karma

Book:Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

“I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.”

Believe Basketball Deserve Praise Sportsmanship

Author:Dean Smith

“I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.”

Virtue Honest Honesty Fame Deserve Bravery Brave Deeds Despise Spurs Renounce

Author:David Mallet

“"How are you doing?" - - - better than I deserve.”

Suffering Deserve Inevitable

Author:John Piper

“The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.”

Whole Enjoy Liberty Integrity Gratitude Blessing Deserve Whole Life Thanksgiving Immunity

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.”

Made Suffering Fate Deserve Punishment Traditional Hinduism Previous Life

Author:Walter Kaufmann