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“I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.”

Thinking Want Trying Real Faults Despite Shock

Author:Michel Houellebecq

“Investors frequently benefit from making decisions with less than perfect knowledge and are well rewarded for bearing the risk of uncertainty. The time other investors spend delving into the last unanswered detail may cost them the chance to buy into situations at prices so low they offer a margin of safety despite the incomplete information”

“Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it also gave me a way to demonstrate to my teacher that, despite the fact that I couldn't write a paper or do math, I was paying attention.”

Way Feels Writing Art Made Two Facts Attention Teacher Special Paper My Friends Math Saved Despite Pay Attention Two Ways

Author:Chuck Close

“Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that is stuck in the past.”

Should Past Careers Support Stuck Despite Painter Filmmaker Format Stuck In The Past

Author:Marion Vernoux

“Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists. What I think is that despite this historical references, Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story.”

Thinking Character Stories Powerful Subjects Doctors Historical Despite Intimate Nazism Protagonists

Author:Lucia Puenzo

“As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way. They have believed in my dreams despite how steep the mountain has been.”

Way Has Beens Dream Parent Steps Careers Mountain Despite Filmmaker Every Step Steep Paving

Author:Aurora Guerrero

“Despite the fact that there's billions of dollars sitting in the Iraqi government reserves, somehow they are incapable of getting it out to the people. There are a very large number of people here who are on the edge of starvation. For those sort of people - a sizable chunk of people - that service makes them regard Muqtada as a sort of god.”

People Facts Government Numbers Sitting Regard Dollars Edges Billions Despite Reserves Incapable Starvation Large Numbers Chunks

Author:Patrick Cockburn

“I don't support gay marriage despite being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative.”

Support Gay Conservative Despite Gay Marriage Ties That Bind Support Gay Marriage

Author:Jens Spahn

“For me, a male role model would be a man who, despite holding a leadership position, has the courage to say that he wants to reschedule a 7 p.m. meeting for 4 p.m. because he'd really like to be able to put his son to bed.”

Men Want Would Be Able Roles Position Son Bed Models Meetings Males Despite Role Models Be A Man Male Role Models

Author:Kristina Schroder

“Despite my belief that somehow my work would get me where I wanted to be, there was still some kind of fathomless yearning. Yes, my career aspirations were always goading me. But partially, I think I tried to let those dreams replace or become the other yearning, to have that other form of value.”

Thinking Kind Stills Dream Wanted Form Values Belief Careers Despite Aspiration Yearning

Author:Cris Mazza

“Everyone I know, men and women alike, would love to see the world changed so that boys and girls, men and women are valued equally for what we contribute, despite the differences in how our brains and bodies work.”

Knows Men World Body Girl Differences Brain Boys Changed Men And Women Despite Know Me Boy And Girl Body Work

Author:Cris Mazza

“About three million Muslims live in the country, but we have no relationship to our diverse Muslim society, despite the fact that it's an established part of our larger society. We need to build a stronger foundation for the relationship between Muslims and the state.”

Needs Country States Facts Three Millions Stronger Foundation Despite Diverse

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.”

Seems Term Answers Clear Progress Materials Miracle Despite Ancestor Humankind Helpless Privileged Improving Facing Life

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!”

Humans Situation Despite Our Thoughts Human Freedom

Author:Viktor E. Frankl

“And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies hold the memories of those who came before us, whether it is the features we inherit or a disposition that is etched into our soul.”

Firsts Soul Body Memories Saws First Time Connected Despite Features Isolation Ancestor Disposition Those Who Came Before Us

Book:The Lost Wife

Source: The Lost Wife

“Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.'”

Despite Ministers Iron Prime Prime Minister Convincing Iron Lady

Author:Sasha Frere-Jones

“Yes, we are our fathers' sons and daughters, but we are not their choices. For despite their absences we are still here. Still alive, still breathing, with the power to change this world, one little boy and girl at a time.”

World Littles Stills Choices Girl Father Boys Alive This World Son Daughter Absence Despite Breathing Our Father Little Boys Father Son Boy And Girl Power To Change Son And Daughter

Author:Daniel Beaty

“Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.”

Dies Lovely Despite Diction

Book:The Nerve Of It: Poems New and Selected

Source: The Nerve Of It: Poems New and Selected

“Things are better now that the attention has subsided a bit, and I'm happier. Now I can concentrate on what I'm supposed to do, that is, training and running. Despite everything that's happened, I feel like I'm still the same person.”

Feels Persons Stills I Can Running Bits Attention Happened Training Despite Better Now

Author:Liu Xiang

“Despite a lingering low inventory and increasing prices, consumers still have the confidence to purchase a home. More and more people recognize the many opportunities in this market and the significant value of low interest rates. As job creation and wages continue to improve, many more first-time buyers are now making the decision to become homeowners.”

“Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless!”

Stills Light Universe Darkness Sun Billions Despite Powerless

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor.”

Country Poor Worst Development Shapes Remains Aids Billions Despite Continents Development Aid

Author:James Shikwati

“It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.”

Should Mother Study Married Decided Males Despite Limitation Elders Being Married Defiance Sturdy

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“Nation building is our central task, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq. And states, nations can't just be built with military power. Despite all difficulties, it's very inspiring to see how the Kurds, the Arab Sunnis and the Shiites are coming together here, how they're jointly defining the basis on which their state is to be built, the political course this state will pursue and who is to receive which cabinet positions.”

“That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.”

Should May Kids School Faces Goal Challenges Despite Neighborhood Public School Great Education

Author:Michelle Rhee

“Despite their rising international acclaim, Sachal Studios remains virtually unknown in Pakistan. The ensemble is faced with a daunting task: to reclaim and reinvigorate an art that has lost its space in Pakistan's narrowing cultural sphere.”

Art Lost Space Tasks Remains International Studios Despite Rising Spheres Pakistan Ensemble Acclaim Daunting Tasks

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“If this universe is the House of God, then I must say it is quite a dark house despite several hundred billion suns!”

Ifs Universe House Dark Sun Hundred Billions Despite House Of God

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.”

Facts Accepting Accepted Despite

Author:Paul Tillich

“Endorsed by Bob Jones, despite calling Mormonism a "cult".”

Calling Despite Bob Cult Mormonism

Author:Mitt Romney

“Most people lose money because of lack of emotional discipline -the ability to keep their emotions removed from investment decisions. Dieting provides an apt analogy. Most people have the necessary knowledge to lose weight-that is they know that in order to lose weight you have to exercise and cut your intake of fats. However, despite this widespread knowledge, the vast majority of people who attempt to lose weight are unsuccessful. Why? Because they lack the emotional discipline.”

People Knows Order Loses Ability Decision Emotion Cutting Emotional Discipline Exercise Weight Majority Investment Fats Despite Analogies Dieting Lose Weight Unsuccessful

Author:Victor Sperandeo

“Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.”

Made Lasts Reading Boys Break Impossible Tears Regret Pride Habit Terrible Pages Checks Dialogue Despite Made It Dirty Prose Relief Relative Shed Senior Unstoppable Pranks Cronies

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.”

Mind Mean Doe Dream Would Be Form Order Vision Path Taken Records Stage Remains Photograph Appearance Despite Curious Perceive Concrete Initials Metamorphosis

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Despite their differences, pride, shame, and guilt all activate similar neural circuits, including the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, insula, and the nucleus accumbens. Interestingly, pride is the most powerful of these emotions at triggering activity in these regions - except in the nucleus accumbens, where guilt and shame win out. This explains why it can be so appealing to heap guilt and shame on ourselves - they're activating the brain's reward center.”

Winning Differences Powerful Emotion Brain Pride Activity Shame Guilt Rewards Including Despite Regions Most Powerful Circuits Activate Nucleus Shame And Guilt

Author:David D. Burns

“For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why they are who they are, and how we all relate to each other, despite the fact that we may not think that we do.”

People Thinking May Facts Storytelling Despite Curious Relate Tick

Author:Thomas Sadoski

“We've got to reach out to Muslim countries.We've got to have them be part of our coalition. If they hear people running for president who basically shortcut it to say we are somehow against Islam, that was one of the real contributions, despite all the other problems, that George W. Bush made after 9/11 when he basically said after going to a Mosque in Washington, we are not at war with Islam or Muslims.”

People Ifs Made Said War Real Country Problem Running President Islam Despite Contribution Reach Out Coalitions Shortcuts Mosques

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.”

World Mind Humans Hands Past Grows Environment Tools Horse Despite Human Mind Engineering Hangers Crepes Horse Sense

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I've always had a sense of responsibility, whether I've been captain or not. But I must say that I'm both pleased and proud to be Portugal captain, despite how young I am, because I know what it means. My job is still the same though. I need to do what I do best out on the pitch, and that's score goals and help my team win.”

Knows Needs Mean Stills Helping Jobs Young Winning Goal Responsibility Team Proud Despite Score Captains Portugal Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Cristiano Ronaldo

“Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.”

Long America Effort Race Struggle Highest Finished Despite Best Effort

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say that it's not all about winning.”

Stills Winning Pressure Honestly Despite Accomplishment Caliber

Author:Bode Miller

“A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both individually and collectively... As long as our thinking is governed by industrial, "machine age" metaphors such as control, predicatbility, and "faster is better", we will continue to re-create institutions as we have, despite their increasing disharmony with the larger world.”

Thinking World Long Age Social Levels Awareness Depends Machines Institutions Metaphor Despite Faster Social Systems Disharmony

Author:Betty Sue Flowers

“Some people, in working towards a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to re-examine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it.”

People Ifs Should Important Happens Action Values Goal Steps Achieve Despite Suitable Inertia

Author:Fitzhugh Dodson

“While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.”

Ifs Thinking Water Security Rivers South China Despite Companion Swimming Panic Physicians Sinking Pleading Security Guards

Author:Mao Zedong

“No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks. Someone will come to sing into these empty spaces.”

Matter Beautiful Space Behinds Empty Paint Despite Ruins Cracks Metals Canvas Empty Space Wreckage

Author:Sarah Kay

“Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.”

Writing Song Goal My Own Doubt Records Pops Despite Hopefully Annoying Pop Song

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.”

Years Growth Plans Mets Standards Environmental Currents Protection Despite Dust Agency Remarkable Pollution Approved Arizona Environmental Protection Ozone Ozone Layer Ozone Depletion

Author:Jane D. Hull

“There is within you, waiting to be called, a great source of power called courage. Call its name and it will give you the strength to confront challenges despite fear and to continue and the heart to continue with bold confidence despite the pain of caused by tragedy.”

Giving Heart Pain Names Waiting Challenges Source Tragedy Despite Within You

Author:Michael Josephson

“God, despite his casual silence, still exists. Of that I haven't a single doubt.”

Stills Silence Doubt Havens Despite Casual

Author:Donald E. Williams, Jr.

“Brand is everything, the stuff you want to communicate to consumers and the stuff you communicate despite yourself.”

Want Stuff Communicate Despite Brands Consumers

Author:David F. D'Alessandro

“I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.”

Thinking Facts Stories Taken Clear Despite Personal Stories

Author:Frances Stark

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