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• It's been difficult to find roles that are independent, strong, and self-assured; I always say I can't play the princess. I'm not a pretty princess! I'm a tomboy.

  Leven Rambin

  Strong, Princess, Independent

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.

  Orrin Woodward

  Regret, Pain, Process

  Twitter post from Mar 09, 2016

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• We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

  Ja Rule

  Growing Up, Believe, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

  Chris Weitz

  Writing, Strange Places, People

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• I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Past, Men, Thinking

  "Parking in the Meatpacking: Johnny Pigozzi". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2010.

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• I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.

  J. A. Jance

  Book, Writing, Character

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• The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

  Eric Holder

  Taken, Law, People

  Address at Northwestern University Law School, delivered 5 March 2012, Chicago, IL

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• The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

  Agnes Repplier

  Men, Political, Life Is

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to others. There is plenty for everybody in science, and more than can be consumed in our time. One may get a fair name by suppressing references, but the Jewish maxim is true, 'He who seeks a name loses fame.'

  Edward Forbes

  Science, Self, Names

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• I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.

  Louis Begley

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd. I had now realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. "The trick is in what one emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

  Carlos Castaneda

  Fashion, Strong, Order

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• Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer.

  Israel Shenker

  Hero, Self, Passionate

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.

  Saadi

  Heart, Sorrow, Consolation

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• Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection.

  Katherine Marsh

  Men, Affection, Babe

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• Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so offensive as the aspirings of vulgarity which thinks to elevate itself by humiliating its neighbor.

  Washington Irving

  Reputation, Wells, Standing

  "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book".

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• Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ignorant, Proud

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 117

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• The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Kings, Home, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles E. Passage (1980). “Goethe's plays”, Frederick Ungar

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• Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.

  Preet Bharara

  Cyber Attacks, Law, Enforcement

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• Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Essence

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Eden ha[s] put his country in a position where she sustained the greatest diplomatic reverse since Bismarck in similar circumstances had called Palmerston's bluff in the matter of Schleswig-Holstein...Further damage was done when Russia proved by her action in Spain, that she was not a good European as Mr. Eden had assured the world was the case.

  Anthony Eden

  Country, Russia, Eden

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• Happy family: The existence and maintenance of [this] is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory, the public are less concerned by whether or not they are effectively represented than by the need to be assured that the penises and vaginas of public officials are only used in legally sanctioned circumstances.

  John Ralston Saul

  Office, Needs, Maintenance

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life And Death, May, Stones

  "The Life of Pasteur" published by René Vallery-Radot, translated by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire, (p. 114), 1902.

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• The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality.

  Lewis Mumford

  Children, School, Emotional

  Lewis Mumford (1974). “The Pentagon of Power”, Harcourt

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• Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

  Gagan Narang

  Sports, Jobs, School

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