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“I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.”

“Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.”

People Giving Leader Findings Crisis Recognizing

Author:Grace Lee Boggs

“It's really scary, when you're on the verge of becoming a teenager, and you don't know if people like you for you or if they like you for the show you're on. So I started finding friends who were not that way, who are accepting and see you who you are.”

People Ifs Knows Way Shows Accepting Like You Becoming Findings Who You Are Scary Teenager Verge Really Scary

Author:Rowan Blanchard

“I don't even think people are even making an effort to understand Trump. I'm thinking primarily of Democrats and media here. I think they're so arrogant that they don't look at Trump as anything other than a badly molded piece of clay that has to be fixed and reshaped and reformed. And there isn't any interest whatsoever in actually finding out what the guy is or what makes him tick. The only objective is to shut him down as he ticks now.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Ultimately, I think people are so hopeful for having some joy in life that is really hard to find. You can't make a living, and the idea of doing one small bank robbery or something, just trying to find your way in a life, finding your footing and ending up behind bars.”

People Thinking Way Trying Ideas Hard Joy Behinds Findings Bars Hopeful Robbery Bank Robbery

Author:Natasha Lyonne

“People say, "How do you get into the British film industry?" There is no British film industry, there are just people making films and finding their own way. It's not like in the States where there are studios and there's an actual infrastructure to it; there's just nothing here. You make it from scratch a lot of the time.”

People Way States Film Industry Findings Studios British Infrastructure Scratches Film Industry British Film

Author:Ben Wheatley

“I've had pretty much the same crew for all the films that I've made, and I've managed to have really nice, calm, funny people. That is a big part of it, a family feeling of warmth and finding something interesting and making a platform for them to perform. It's a very difficult job, acting, in that it's totally counterintuitive to how we are brought up.”

People Made Feelings Bigs Jobs Film Difficult Interesting Acting Nice Findings Calm Warmth Platforms Crew Really Nice Something Interesting Funny People

Author:Ben Wheatley

“People are forever finding something wrong with you.”

People Forever Findings

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.”

People Fun Findings Mentor Getting Older Fun Things

Author:Mike May

“Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.”

People Inspiring Millions Findings

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.”

People Lasts Realizing Forever Growing Up Growing Findings

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.”

People Spiritual Form Purpose Jesus Religious Leader Teacher Findings Followers Religious Leaders Spiritual Leader Spiritual Teachers True People

Author:Martha Beck

“As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier.”

People Knows Needs Made I Can Care Certain Levels Taken Balance Findings All Things Inherent

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Looks Whole Given Born Findings Pressure Whole Life New Things Better Ways Not Happy

Author:Natalie Portman

“Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.”

People Hard Song Findings Songwriting Gigs

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.”

People Joy Simple Struggle Century Materials Findings Aspect Scales Realising 21st Century 80s Consumed Simple Joys 80s And 90s Simpler Times

Author:Julia Roberts

“Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.”

People Greater Findings Satisfaction Lifestyle Pursuit Materialism Relentless Relentless Pursuit

Author:Laurance Rockefeller

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”

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Book:Mrs. Warren's Profession

Source: Mrs. Warren's Profession

“Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.”

People Life Is Taught Keys Balance Findings Faults Complaining Likes Naive Taught Us Life Balance Pollyanna

Author:Mark Skousen

“People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.”

People Enough Wisdom Past Time Energy Lines Too Much Growing Findings Capable Blame Excuse

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.”

People Ifs Way Wells Use Planets Findings Resources Seven Billions Bags Friendly Efficient Plastic Finite Live Well Plastic Bags Environmentally Friendly

Author:David Suzuki

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.”

People Knows Way Wells Music Fronts Findings Married Performances Cash June Carter

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?”

People Way Should Looks Light Happens Care Wish Felt Happened Car Stupid Findings Looking Back Pulling Traffic Traffic Light

Book:You Shall Know Our Velocity

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity

“The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to."”

“When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.”

People Findings

Book:Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

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Author:Dale Carnegie

“I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.”

People Stories My Own Half Novel Findings Clever

Author:Jane Austen

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”

“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”

People Suffering Findings Oneself Introspection Finding Oneself

Book:Man's Search for Himself

Source: Man's Search for Himself

“How delightful to find a friend in everyone.”

People Friendship Friends Findings Delight Delightful Friendship Day

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn't about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to.”

People World Way Trying Years Wanted Reading Fiction Happened Figures Adventure Theory Findings Exciting Filled Science Fiction Conclusion Rules Of Life Exciting Life

Author:Robin Wasserman

“Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all getting to be too much work.”

“To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.”

People Giving Long Character Opportunity Marriage Findings Engaged Engagement Earnest Importance Of Being Earnest Advisable Before Marriage Modern Journalism

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.”

People Knows Way Want Done Seems Remember Moving Forget Happened Cry Broken Findings Holes Forget It Mourn Just Move On

Author:Sarah Dessen

“Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.”

People Ifs World Writing Helping Feelings Secret Written Materials Honor Paper Findings Asking Underestimate Describing

Author:Anne Lamott

“Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Sometimes Matter Struggle Talent Succeed Findings Get Better Have Faith Display Consistently Great Talent

Author:Laura Kasischke

“A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.”

People Believe School Order Jesus Belief Difficult Born Class Progress Findings Conscience England Income Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Sections Virgins Salary Whales Ingenious Jonah Twister

Author:Upton Sinclair

“There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.”

People Firsts Three Found Type Findings Thirds Seeking Foolish Unhappy Rational

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.”

People Way Needs Feels Looks Mean Happens Passion Challenges Findings Projects Passionate Things Happen Boss Make Things Happen

Book:Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“There are no risk in Love, as you'll find out for yourself. People have been searching for and finding each other for thousands of years. Suddenly, he realised that the might be wrong. There was always a risk, a single risk: that one person might meet with more thatn one Soulmate in the same incarnation.”

People Years Persons Has Beens Might Risk Findings Soulmate Realised Incarnation That One Person

Author:Paulo Coelho

“When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.”

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Author:Tom Stoppard

“Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.”

“I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.”

People Made Seems Findings Dirt

Book:Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Sampler

Source: Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Sampler

“In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.”

“People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.”

People Policy Findings Harder Relate Foreign Policy

Author:Madeleine Albright

“If you find something precious you have to hold onto it with all your might and never let it go inspite of whatever else you may lose, after all many people die without ever finding that's really precious to them.”

People Ifs May Might Dies Loses Findings Let It Go

Author:Novala Takemoto

“But the thing I’m finding out is some people don’t really appreciate it when you’r trying to be helpful.”

People Trying Findings Appreciate Helpful

Author:Jeff Kinney

“"There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words."”

People Way Feels Kind Littles Reason Values Findings Roots Hatred Seeking Soil Pernicious

Book:House Of Chains: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 4

Source: House Of Chains: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 4

“What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in the back at the first opportunity, and that would have probably been the right thing to do. Yet, this girl just continued to trust. It was like finding a beautiful plant growing alone in a field of burnt ash.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Stills Able Beautiful Girl Opportunity Growing Fields Findings Plant Things To Do Right Thing Ashes This Girl Plants Growing

Book:The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn

Source: The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn

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