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• I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

  Helen Mirren

  Survival, Males, Female

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• Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

  Moby

  Lunch, Nerd, Clubs

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• I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

  Manuel Puig

  Believe, Successful, People

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• When it comes to sports, women are big targets for abuse because the resentment is two-fold. Some resent us for our confidence and beliefs. But there also is an added resentment because we are supposedly infiltrating a space that has been decidedly male.

  Jemele Hill

  Sports, Two, Space

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• Liberals insist they believe as strongly in the American dream as the rest of us, but routinely demonize those who succeed in attaining it. They loudly profess their allegiance to capitalism, but resent the inequitable money results it produces.

  David Limbaugh

  Dream, Believe, Succeed

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• [Lighting a cigarette] Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm somebody's health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the nonsmoking mentality has been imposed on the smoking minority. Because, first of all, in a democracy, minorities do have rights. And, second, the whole pitch about smoking has gone from being a health issue to a moral issue, and when they reduce something to a moral issue, it has no place in any kind of legislation, as far as I'm concerned.

  Frank Zappa

  Issues, Rights, Smoking

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• The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together.

  Thomas Friedman

  Together, Needs, Safari

  Thomas L. Friedman (2009). “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why The World Needs A Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global Future”, p.262, Penguin UK

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• The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Winter, Ice, Snow

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• I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while, and then the funny side of me is going to come out. Slowly, people are going to realize they're seeing a completely honest evolution of human life.

  Fiona Apple

  People, Honest, Evolution

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

  Melina Marchetta

  Firsts, Idiot

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.527, Penguin UK

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• Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Weakness, Faces

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• Can I join you at lunch?" She paused. "You have every other day." He laughed, a sound as musical as the chiming song of the lupine fey when they ran. "Yes. But you resented it every other day." "What makes you think I won't resent it today?" "Hope. It's what I live on.

  Melissa Marr

  Song, Thinking, Lunch

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• Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Hate, Mean

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.

  Sarah McLachlan

  People, Trying, Want

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• Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

  Neil Gaiman

  May, Surface, Humans

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• It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and methods. I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife; and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can't bring myself to resent it. I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I'm afraid, the reverse. It doesn't seem sufficient to sustain one in life's rigorous moments. Perhaps I shall embrace Islam. Its standards for poetry seem very high.

  Emma Bull

  Lying, Philosophy, Believe

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• He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.

  Peter De Vries

  Eye, Vanity, People

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• Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.

  Azar Nafisi

  Hurt, Memories, Independent

  "Reading Lolita in Tehran". Book by Azar Nafisi, 2003.

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• All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stronger, Normal, Resentment

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• We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.

  Wendell Berry

  Iraq, Vietnam, Forgotten

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• [Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I was against you from the beginning."

  Kevin Sessums

  Fall, Betrayed, Kramer

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• When you mentioned something about self improvement, the implication is that the negro is something distinct or different, and, therefore, needs to learn how to improve himself. Negro leaders resent this being said, not because they don't know that it's true, but they're thinking, they're looking at it personally. They think that the implication is directed even at them, and that they, and they duck this responsibility.

  Malcolm X

  Responsibility, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I build my life so that I don't wake up for anything. Ever. If you make me get up early to do something with you, I will hate you and resent you and figure out a way of never having to work with you ever again.

  Douglas Coupland

  Hate, Up Early, Resent You

  Source: feathertale.com

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• It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it.

  Mara Wilson

  Littles, Adults, Levels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Revenge, Giving

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.198, Tara Publishing

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