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• Why should I complain about making $700 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Maids, Week, Should

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

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• It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

  Stephen Hawking

  Life, People, Done

  "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Mistake, Imperfection, May

  "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking", 2010.

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• Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm sure. It breaks my heart to think that there are kids out there, ready to have their imaginations lit on fire, excited and wanting to read, and facing naked shelves in their school or local libraries. Rather than complain or wait till the system stops failing our nation's children this is a matter I feel we must take into our own hands. There are children, right now, waiting-wanting to read. What shall we tell them>

  Nathan Fillion

  Children, Growing Up, Reading

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• I don’t sit around complaining about the lack of good roles. I will play Raj 85 times and still make him different.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Play, Different, Roles

  "I love Salman so much: SRK" by Malavika Sangghvi, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. January 2, 2005.

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• Let me complain-it's good for television.

  Phil Hellmuth

  Television, Let Me

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• Yoshihiro Togashi here. I'm back doing a weekly serial, and here I am publishing my first volume already. Thanks to all my readers for their support. I am entirely indebted to you. I took this picture (it is a photo of Togashi wearing a rabbit mask) at a certain party by the way, not a shady membership club. I'll work hard to crank out dozens of volumes. I promise not to complain. I won't run away. I won't lose it. I think. Maybe.

  Yoshihiro Togashi

  Running, Party, Hard Work

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• Try to do exactly as you are taught without complaining or quibbling.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Trying, Taught

  Gichin Funakoshi (1994). “Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text”, p.43, Kodansha International

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• Your tomorrow has no right to complain about your today, as long as your today gives you a bliss, unknown and incomprehensible to both your yesterday, and tomorrow!

  Sonu Nigam

  Yesterday, Long, Giving

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• You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

  Bret Michaels

  Summer, Shoes, Watches

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• Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

  Ovid

  Husband, Dying, Complaints

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• It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

  John von Neumann

  Selfish, Law, People

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• Holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos - what's to complain about?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Holocaust, Four

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• The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more than merely aware of the idol he wishes to destroy. He must be intimate with it and understand it in all its aspects. This means that he must have devoted serious thought to it, and have beliefs of his own which will stand up in the place of the broken idol. In other words, any child can complain, but it takes an adult to clash with accepted beliefs . . . an adult with ideas.

  Alfred Bester

  Children, Mean, Order

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• When problems arise, you will usually find two types of people: whiners and winners. Whiners obstruct progress; they spend hours complaining about this point or that, without offering positive solutions. Winners acknowledge the existence of the problem, but they try to offer practical ideas that can help resolve the matter in a manner that is satisfactory to both parties.

  George Foreman

  Party, Offering, Ideas

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• Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

  Earl Warren

  People, Age, Growing

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, p. 43, 1980.

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• I've been surprised by how little criticism I've got. Harry Potter's been taking all the flak. I'm a great fan of J.K. Rowling, but the people - mainly from America's Bible Belt - who complain that Harry Potter promotes Satanism or witchcraft obviously haven't got enough in their lives. Meanwhile, I've been flying under the radar, saying things that are far more subversive than anything poor old Harry has said. My books are about killing God.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, America, People

  "The shed where God died". Interview with Steve Meacham, www.smh.com.au. December 13, 2003.

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• Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

  Andre Gide

  Useless

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• When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within--a spirit of growth and beauty.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Spring, Rain

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.19, American Foundation for the Blind

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• There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.

  Enrique Iglesias

  People, Wake Up, Can Do

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• What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Eight, Years

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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• People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Change, Dream, People

  Charles R. Swindoll (1995). “Collected Works of Charles R. Swindoll: A Collection Consisting of Living on the Ragged Edge”, Arrowood Press

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• Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord.

  Christopher Columbus

  Long, People, Useless

  Reported in Bartolome de las Casas, Journal of the First Voyage, 10 Oct. 1492 (translation by Samuel Eliot Morison)

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• If friendship is to transpire between two people, it is important that both be in a state of availability. I have often been in the company of those who complain that they have no friends. Inevitably, I have observed that this condition was due to their own lack of availability; they were too encumbered to be able to welcome another. Such unavailability may be exterior in nature; that is, people may lack the time or the emotional energy necessary for friendship.

  Ignace Lepp

  Friendship, Nature, Emotional

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• People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

  Robert Redford

  Self, People, Miracle

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