Envy Quotes - Page 33

• You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Roots, Slave Ships, Tree

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• Do I envy Madonna’s body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you’re fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime’s work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!

  Salma Hayek

  Thank God, Looks, World

  "Salma Hayek Supports Madonna’s Controversial Tour Style" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2012.

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• I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Respect People

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• I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Passion, Equality, No Respect

  "Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916 - 1935". Book by Mark De Wolfe Howe, Volume 2, p. 942, 1953.

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• People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.

  Evander Holyfield

  Hard Work, Jealous, People

  "Evander Holyfield Q n A - Part I". Interview with Zhenyu Li, www.thesweetscience.com. April 20, 2010.

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• There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

  Jim Jeffords

  Educational, Important, World

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• There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Jobs, Powerful, Successful

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• I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Writing, People, Process

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• I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Daughter, Mother

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Success, Hater

  "The Films of Barbra Streisand". Book by Christopher Nickens and Karen Swenson, October 1, 2000.

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• In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Way, Omar, Hotel

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• The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

  Gary Oldman

  Mistake, Jewels, America

  "Gary Oldman on life, the universe, and everything". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2011.

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• You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'

  Rand Paul

  Country, People, Growth

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• I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

  Jane Pauley

  Meaningful, Dream, Passion

  "Jane Pauley tackles reinvention". Interview, blogs.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Opposites, Funny Things, People

  "Zen and the art of Robert Pirsig". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Real

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• Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Inspire, Use

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• This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Leader, Vision

  Mitt Romney's primary speech in New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

  Marco Rubio

  Hate, Successful, People

  "America’s Got 99 Problems and Needs Someone from the 1 (%)" by Corey Stern, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

  Rumi

  Inward, Attention, Occupation

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

  Paul Ryan

  People, Anxiety, Needs

  "Paul Ryan: No Leadership From WH; Dramatically Inaccurate Speech". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 13, 2011.

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• Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

  Jonathan Sacks

  People, Deeds, Admire

  "In Tough Times, Seek the Spirit" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

  William Shatner

  Book, Names, People

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• I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Teacher, Self, Parent

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.135, Vintage

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• Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

  Barbra Streisand

  God, Pain, My Own

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

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