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“We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.”

May Song Forget Four Happened Students Emotional Spots Peaceful Protest Gave Up Anniversary Peaceful Protest

Author:Graham Nash

“My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.”

Needs Emotional Brother Goes On Band I Want You Family Love Macs I Need You Emotional Needs Fleetwood Mac

Author:Stevie Nicks

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

Ifs Heart Reason Loses Emotion Strength Emotional Ought Thrive Let It Go

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.”

Feelings Emotion Emotional Tongue Wit Epitaph

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.”

People World Inspiration Tears Emotional Trade Cheeks Streaming World Trade World Trade Center

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.”

Trying Reality Certain Acting Figures Emotional Exercise Empathy Confused

Author:Edward Norton

“The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.”

People Kind Government School Parent Church Relationship Emotional Psychological Supervision

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.”

People Together Actors Acting Support Stage Emotional Materials Fine Comfort Screens Inevitable Fulfillment Companion

Author:Peter O'Toole

“We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.”

World Challenges Emotional Response Emotional Response

Book:Contraries

Source: Contraries

“It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.”

Want Art Philosophy Might Winning Sports Enjoy Loses Results Fire Emotional Hungry Live By Competing Competitors Inspirational Sports Deep Down Win Or Lose

Author:Apolo Ohno

“America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.”

Needs America Lost Results Forever Emotional Return Battle Normal Soldier Iraq Wounds Disabled Normal Life Rehabilitation Good Soldiers Battle Wounds

Author:John Olver

“I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.”

People Understanding Hurt Issues Policy Emotional Shame Longing Disappointment Stem Discourse Abandonment Public Discourse

Author:Susie Orbach

“Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.”

“For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.”

Love Writing Heart Important Creativity Creative Emotional Truth Is Possession Sincerity Comeback Creative Writers

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.”

Stills Home Dream Emotional Delhi Owning A Home

Author:Kabir Bedi

“A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don't have that outlet.”

“At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.”

Ifs Needs Ends Night Voice Sleep Issues Emotional Health Health Care The End Of The Day Right Place Emotional Health Barometer

Author:Mehmet Oz

“The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.”

Suffering Actors Process Acting Emotional Athlete Painful Personal Life

Author:Al Pacino

“Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.”

Littles Stills Song Space Audience Special Effects Produce Emotional Depth Pops Artistic Concerts Vocabulary Special Effects Pop Song Catchy Rapport Overkill

Author:Camille Paglia

“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.”

Ifs Friendship Behinds Emotional

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.”

Feels Stuff Emotional

Author:James Patterson

“The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable.”

Ifs Wanted Stuff Fiction Subjects Emotional Boring Dry Torn Non Fiction Torn Apart

Author:James Patterson

“It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.”

Done Roles Comedy Emotional Drama Demand Draining

Author:Sean Penn

“My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.”

Wells Kind Littles Mother Born Emotional Dad My Dad Guts Preacher Born Again Flair Pentecostal

Author:Katy Perry

“I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.”

Ifs Writing Kind Guy Song Emotional Albums Sensitive Duress

Author:Matthew Perry

“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

Feels Made Real Done Jobs Friendship Emotional Fool Friends My Friends Permanent Real Friends My Best Friend True Friend True Friendship Best Friend My Friendship Friends Forever Your Best Friend About Friendship Friendship Memories Great Friend One Line Friendship Best Friendship Friendship Day Funny Friend Making Friends Great Friendship Funny Friendship Happy Friendship Real Friendship Friendship Garden True Best Friend Beautiful Friendship Bff Hearts And Friends Wonderful Friendship Funny Best Friend Dearest Friend Who Your Friends Are Short Friend Funny April Fools Day Funny April Fools Heart Touching Friends Unique Friendship Wonderful Friends Friendship Forever Funniest Friends Heart Touching Friendship Thank You Friendship Nice Friend Really Funny Best Friend Touching Best Friend Your My Best Friend Thanking Friends Nice Friendship Bff Forever Moments With Friends Touching Friendship

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?”

Mind Political Moral Emotional Baggage Emotional Baggage

Author:Steven Pinker

“I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.”

People Thinking Way Mean Reason Term Emotional Negative Treats Attractive Buttons Listeners Offensive Swearing Connotation

Author:Steven Pinker

“The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognise it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows.”

Humans Kind Different Facts Shows Remember Difficult Fiction Quality Novel Honesty Emotional Recognise Resilient Empathetic Human Qualities

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.”

Want Children Home Parent Growth Emotional Psychological

Author:Dirk Benedict

“Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.”

Film Emotional Messages Conscious Impact Advertising Atmosphere Emotional Life Subliminal Subliminal Messages

Book:The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism

Source: The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism

“Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.”

Ends Political Emotional Mindset Reactions Frequency Emotional Reactions

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”

Men Love Life Persons Character Joy Values Literature Love Is Quality Moral Virtue Emotional Expression Paid Rewards One Man Moral Character

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.”

Heart Mean Doe Feelings Action Wife Emotional Behavior Abuse Faults Devotion Criticize Love Someone Sullen Love Your Wife

Book:Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice

Source: Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice

“Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.”

Giving Made Parent Growing Up Growing Sacrifice Childhood Emotional Honor Deserve Stress Illness Infancy Honor And Respect Emotional Stress

Book:Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice

Source: Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice

“He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.”

Character Action Wanted Vision Clear Emotional Beats Wardrobe Clear Vision

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.”

Sides Emotion Emotional Pure Lifts Lift You Up Impure Thoughts

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.”

Use Emotional Direct Connections Logic Our Words Emotional Connection

Author:Jane Roberts

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”

“The passions are the only orators which always persuade.”

Feelings Passion Emotion Emotional Orators

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.”

Humans Mean Has Beens Feelings Human Beings Powerful Greater Emotional Presses Violent Urges Conquest Inferiority Agitation Being Mean

Author:Alfred Adler

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”

Ifs Feels Heart History Emotional Integrity Criticism Critics Positivity Envy Criticize Gossip

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.”

Ifs Would Be Loses Ability Emotional Angry Refuse Robots Outraged

Author:Arundhati Roy

“It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.”

Feels Long Hard Done Emotional Goodbye Saying Goodbye Bye Good Bye Feels Right Bye Bye Good Goodbye Saying Bye Saying Goodbye Is Hard Hard To Say Goodbye

Author:Angela Ruggiero

“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.”

Facts Feelings Wisdom Emotion Wise Emotional Degrees Vary Hotter Mixed Emotions Useless Knowledge

Author:Bertrand Russell

“When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.”

Men Reason Belief Emotional Habit Conviction Reasoning Logical Intensity Favour

Book:Mysticism and Logic

Source: Mysticism and Logic

“When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans’ fears about the future.”

Ideas Play Left Emotional Serious Appeals Opponents Resorts Emotional Appeal

Author:Paul Ryan

“Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.”

Energy Attention Sacrifice Emotional Massive Parenthood Emotional Energy

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.”

Reason Faces Purpose Dies Born Existence Emotional Creatures Cures Uncertainty Excess Helplessness Transcendent Insignificance Hopes And Fears

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”

Emotional Weakness Emotional Life

Author:George Santayana

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