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• When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Heart, Desire

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• I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.

  Alain de Botton

  Sports, Real, School

  "Office affairs" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because its so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.

  Simon Mawer

  School, Eight, Space

  "A life in books" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.

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• It was the emotion I hated the most of all emotions, shame.

  Sister Souljah

  Emotion, Shame

  Sister Souljah (2014). “A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.

  Missy Peregrym

  Sports, Jobs, Vancouver

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• By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

  Nikola Tesla

  Fate, Drawing, Long

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

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• As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because you either loved them or you hated them.

  Joe Torre

  Player, Yankees, League

  "Joe Torre Hired to Take Over Los Angeles Dodgers". Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. November 01, 2007.

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• I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

  Joe Torre

  Yankees, Dodgers, Wounds

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• Devolving APD to Scotland is merely tinkering with it. We have to get shot of this hated tax right across the country to ensure all of our airports are competing on level terms.

  Brian Donohoe

  Country, Airports, Scotland

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• I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special.

  Garrison Keillor

  Feelings, Special

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• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  Olivier Theyskens

  School, Feelings, Losing

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• I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Thinking, Self, Feelings

  "I was so obese I'd lie in bed trying to tear bits off my body: Comedian Marcus Brigstocke once weighed 24 stone and was suicidal but lives to tell the tale". Interview with Richard Barber, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 27, 2011.

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• I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

  Loretta Young

  School, Disability, Reason

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• To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

  Edmond Rostand

  Moral, Pleasure, Manners

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• It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no remorse at that moment for his conduct towards the innocent, true-hearted girl; although his libertine clients had done precisely what he had expected, precisely what he most wished, and precisely what would tend most to his advantage, still he hated them for doing it, from the very bottom of his soul.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Character, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1854). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster”, p.223

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• My mom was always a big fan of Elvis. She made me listen to Elvis when I was a kid. I hated it. And I think now I've kind of grown up to fill in some of the sort of controversy that he created back in his day, but in a much more extreme, modern sense.

  Marilyn Manson

  Mom, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I hate superheroes. I always hated superheroes. From the time I was a little kid, I could believe in a 50-foot gorilla trashing New York City before I could believe a guy would put on long tights and bat ears and go and fight crime. Like, the fantasy never made sense to me, on a basic level.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  New York, Hate, Believe

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Hate, Class, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

  Jack Kirby

  Fighting, Long, Kind

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Feelings, Done, Lasts

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• I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university, the university artists really acted as a group. The others didn't so much, but the university people took advantage of that and behaved like a group, rather than as individuals. They had a lot of power that way.

  Tom Robbins

  Artist, People, Saws

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• I had a lot of insecure moments in high school. It wasn't all peachy keen. But, I don't necessarily think that I hated high school and wanted to crawl into a hole either.

  Kristen Bell

  School, Insecure, Thinking

  "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• I remember during Oscar season, the thing I hated most was being talked to differently; people treat you differently. And then I suddenly understood why celebrities can be so weird; it's hard to act normal when no-one treats you normally.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  People, Oscars, Normal

  "Jennifer Lawrence: Natural Talent". Interview with Debbie McQuoid, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Hurt, Cooking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Hate, Hatred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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