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• I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.

  James Caan

  Dad, Mistake, Son

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

  Michael Caine

  Heartbroken, Home, Thinking

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• I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

  Frank Capra

  Motivational, Mistake, Drama

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• Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

  Mariah Carey

  Funny, Money, Stupid

  "The X Factor - Mariah Carey night - LIVE!!!" by Heidi Stephens, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2008.

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• The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Heart, Rocks

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• If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

  Anton Chekhov

  Failing, Ifs

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• When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

  Kurt Cobain

  Hate, Nevermind, Productions

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• I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sunset, Phones, Waiting

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• I am a late discoverer of 'Friday Night Lights.' I cry every episode at least once. I love to cry - happy, emotional tears. I just love it.

  Andy Cohen

  Friday, Night, Emotional

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• Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

  Mason Cooley

  Powerful, Twenties, Literature

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• I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Father, Book, People

  William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”

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• For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.

  Bill Cosby

  Senior, College, Down And

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• I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Kids, Thinking

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• Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Government, People, Lobbyists

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• It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women, I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.

  Willem Dafoe

  Talking, Laughing, Guy

  "What I know about women". Interview with Rosamund Witcher, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

  Roald Dahl

  Laughter, Fall, Broken

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• You have to stay hydrated when you have crying scenes.

  Claire Danes

  Scene

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• I have one mascara that I use religiously, and I refuse to try anything else, and if they discontinued it I would probably cry. Cover Girl lash blast, in the orange tube.

  Nina Dobrev

  Girl, Orange, Trying

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• Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Inspiring, Struggle, Learning

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• I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

  Jenny Eclair

  Lying, Naps, Red

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and tlak much of free grace, but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Hypocrite, Men, Discovery

  Jonathan Edwards (1844). “The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index”, p.52

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• In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fear, War, Fire

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.607, Best Books on

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• Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

  George Eliot

  Life, Death, Kings

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.401

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• Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.

  W. C. Fields

  May, Milk, Has Beens

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• Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

  Jane Fonda

  Father, Easy, Steak

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

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