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• It’s an odd term, 'girlfriend,' particularly for grown persons. And in practice it provides an even odder concept. Generally speaking, in adults it described a woman, not a girl, who was willing to provide sex, not friendship. In fact, from what I had observed it was quite possible for one to actively dislike one’s girlfriend, although of course true hatred is reserved for marriage.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Girl, Sex, Practice

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.37, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, People, Admire

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• I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike LA, I just don't think it's a very healthy place for me to be all the time. When I'm shooting a movie there and am working I'm perfectly happy. But when I'm not working or engaged in something it's a place that I wouldn't live.

  Willem Dafoe

  New York, Thinking, Healthy

  "Mr Bean's Holiday - Willem Dafoe interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them.

  Kurt Russell

  Remakes, Sequels

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face.

  Carrie Nation

  Beer, Men, Devil

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• I don't have a strategy. I am my own person. So if people disagree with the opinion of my father and want to dislike me because I'm his daughter, then I'm probably not going to be able to discourage them from that.

  Ivanka Trump

  Daughter, Father, Dislike Me

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Time, Cutting, Hands

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• Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my handwriting--it lives too much and I dislike its life--I mean by "lives," of course, betrays too much!

  Lionel Trilling

  Life, Notebook, Hate

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• Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen to feel like doing anything you would dislike. With a little cleverness you can organize life as a whole, and issues in particular, so that you both want the same thing most of the time.

  Penelope Leach

  Issues, Want, Littles

  Penelope Leach (2013). “Your Baby and Child”, p.324, Knopf

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• I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn't occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that's all!

  Annie Elizabeth Delany

  Thinking, People, African American

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.75, Kodansha America

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• Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Nice, Simple, Men

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.

  Sengcan

  Struggle, Mind, Disease

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• I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

  David Lean

  Mystery, Muddle

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• This week the White House proposed fingerprinting and photographing foreign visitors so they can do background checks. Officials in Saudi Arabia said this will only increase anti-American feelings in the Mideast. Is that possible? Gee, you hate to have people dislike us for no reason. Things were going so well.

  Jay Leno

  Hate, White, People

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• Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.

  Mason Cooley

  Children, Parent, Natural

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• Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job,and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.

  Alice S Rossi

  Jobs, Men, People

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• No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Running, Mistake

  Chicago Tribune, 19 Sept. 1926.

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• When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Understanding, Excited, Understood

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• Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Running, People, Different

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• In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

  H. G. Wells

  Book, Men, Elderly

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1397, Delphi Classics

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• There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  People, Judgement, Would Be

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (1983). “Teach only love: the seven principles of attitudinal healing”

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• Here's why I like geek culture: People like what they like because they like it. They're not trying to fit into any mainstream likes or dislikes.

  Kristen Bell

  People, Trying, Culture

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. November 12, 2008.

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• Not everything I dislike should be destroyed, some of it should simply be moved farther away.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Should, Moved, Destroyed

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• I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

  Mary Harron

  Feminism, Ridiculous, Film

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

  Maya Angelou

  Men, Married, Treated

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