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“Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.”

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Book:The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays

Source: The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays

“Have pride and entertainment. I think that a lot bands just don't know how to do it anymore or they lost interest in it or don't care and are just cashing a paycheck.”

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Author:John Seagall

“We've had now eight years and there's this prideful sense among many African Americans. When you think about how elated they are when they see the First Lady on magazine covers or when she is out doing her thing. There just this pride our community has had for eight years now. When that goes away, I jokingly said it, but I do think there's going to be a bit of withdrawal.”

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Author:Ed Gordon

“The sense of pride I take away from doing something I know will be inspire women to feel confident about their bodies.”

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Author:Ashley Graham

“My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I take pride in the fact that you are able to make some good contributions to the sport at certain times.”

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Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“I am proud that my inner circle of friends has never been defined by race but by the content of their character. Any former teammate or anyone who has met me can attest to this and I pride myself on not being a judgemental person.”

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Author:Steve Clevenger

“Pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody's actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that example for my son.”

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Author:Charlize Theron

“The format of the book was the idea of my wonderful editor, Stephen Segal. Stephen and I had worked together before, on projects for the Interstitial Arts Foundation, and when he got the idea for an accordion-style book, he called and asked if I could write the story for it. I told him that I would love to try! And I knew it had to be a love story, because that's the sort of story you really want to hear from both perspectives. I mean, imagine if Pride and Prejudice were told from Darcy's perspective as well as Elizabeth's. It would be quite a different story!”

“I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.”

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Author:Khaled Hosseini

“It's a weird feeling more than anything. You kind of have to swallow your pride a little bit, realize we won the game, be excited about it. We get to go back to D.C.”

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Author:Clayton Kershaw

“My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

“That's one thing I pride myself on is working hard in the weight room, working hard in practice, trying to become a better player.”

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Author:Dwight Howard

“I remember taking great pride in making Brad Pitt laugh. I always had a soft spot for him. He's such a sweet, sweet man.”

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Author:Eddie Jemison

“I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly; it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.”

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Author:Indira Gandhi

“Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.”

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Author:Indira Gandhi

“All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride that surprised even me. Then even the political parties, all of them, even the deputies in Parliament, said no: it's better to die of hunger than be taken for a nation of beggars.”

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Author:Indira Gandhi

“My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be courageous.' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys.”

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Author:Indira Gandhi

“It's this amazing combination to play, really, of somebody who's actually very fragile and hasn't really grown up properly yet - at least in a healthy environment - and has suffered immense loss with her dad - like that line where she says, [in the words of her father [King George VI], "Yes, 'Elizabeth is my pride but Margaret's my joy." She holds onto it!”

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Author:Vanessa Kirby

“I take pride in being the same person.”

Author:George W. Bush

“We have to have pride in not just one people but all people.”

People Pride Just One

Author:Stevie Wonder

“If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.”

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Author:Paul Keating

“Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and that they did it.”

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Author:Gary Hustwit

“If the Russian government continues to pump money into it and makes their national teams train in Sochi and just sort of prop it up as a point of pride, then perhaps. But I don't think anybody living there was begging for multiple 40,000-seat venues to be plopped down in the city.”

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Author:Gary Hustwit

“Like for Putin it's really about hosting this two-week [Olympic] party and showing it off to the world.It's a pride thing. It's a big PR exercise for him and for Russia. So, at that point $50 billion and some environmental damage and a small city's future don't really matter.”

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Author:Gary Hustwit

“If your kids are realizing that they descend from something, that's really great. The more you're able to inculcate that the greater amount of pride they're gonna have. That's incredible.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”

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Book:John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

Source: John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

“I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

“I think that it's a natural thing for parents to look for reflections of themselves in their children and feel a certain pride there. So if your child is very, very different, or perhaps if he's very, very similar, it makes you uncomfortable.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I'd done a pilot [of Townies] with Caroline Rhea [Pride & Joy] that didn't go anywhere.”

Done Joy Pride Pilots

Author:Eric McCormack

“I don't even want to go to the Pride marches anymore. The politics have been removed almost entirely. They're just huge corporate showcases.”

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Author:Cleve Jones

“I like to think that with me, what you see is what you get, and you can like or dislike it, it's up to you, but it's straight. That's something that I pride myself on.”

Thinking Pride Dislike Up To You

Author:Susan Rice

“The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.”

Men Pride Despair Dignity Misery Philosopher

Author:Blaise Pascal

“The path marked Pride will lead you over a cliff.”

Path Pride Cliffs

Author:Max Lucado

“Without a doubt, there's huge satisfaction when a relatively smaller nation can take on a bigger nation and defeat them. There's a lot of pride in that.”

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Author:Jim Courier

“There is definitely a sense of pride to it - it's more precious when you cook something up from the beginning and you see it all the way to the end, and you get a little bit more of a say.”

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Author:Jeremy Renner

“There is a greater a sense of pride - like when we did Kill the Messenger - and that was probably one of my more fun experiences on a movie set. Having everyone there on the same team, it just feels really great.”

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Author:Jeremy Renner

“My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit in, and raise it to another level if I can. And this [Code Black ] has been another one of those really fun success stories, much like Parks And Recreation, although obviously on the other side of the comedy/drama equation.”

“[Peter Norman] was a man of principle and pride, had a strong moral character.”

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Author:John Carlos

“All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Now, I actually have to a degree, a responsibility to ensure that it doesn't happen again.' I felt pride. When you're up there [in the noose] it does give you pause but I'm no stranger to degradation and dehumanization. I felt a lot of pride to be a part of showing something like this because a lot of people don't know and haven't been exposed to these types of historical experiences until they see it depicted on our show [Underground].”

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Author:Aldis Hodge

“The reason I take pride for that is one of the things you worry about when you're in the bubble, and there's all this pomp and circumstance and hail to the chief is, do you lose touch with what you thought was important and what brought you here? And I'm proud that I don't think I have lost touch.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I think my time at West Brom was successful, that's my take on it. I look back on the work I did there with a lot of pride, I enjoyed my time. Unfortunately it ended a bit prematurely but that's what happens, that's the nature of modern day football.”

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Author:Steve Clarke

“Fashion and all that it implies - hair, makeup - is an art form. If you look organized and well presented, people think that you're organized in your mind and you take pride in yourself. And besides, it's fun. Isn't it fun?”

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Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Trump's creating laws for crimes that don't exist. In Canada, we have Prime Minister Trudeau in the gay Pride parade waving a flag.”

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Author:Eric Walters

“An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion, and there's pride to be taken in both. But one of them could be exploited much more easily and has been in the context of world conflict. And the other is very difficult to do on the grounds that science and literature and mathematics have been among the uniting factors in the history of the world.”

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Author:Amartya Sen

“I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride in ignorance, or somehow use "elite" to mean "person who has taken the time to know" and then are eager to dismiss, say, striving, or the notion that improving one's self out of difficult conditions is a noble thing.”

“I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.”

Book Certain Energy Taken Pride Mad Time And Energy

Author:Catherine Mayer