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• The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Children, Thinking

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• Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic.

  Montgomery Schuyler

  Children, Republic, Feels

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• The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.

  Will Rogers

  Cooking, Appetite

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

  Kobe Bryant

  Team, Athlete, Trying

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• I'm really trying not to feel I'm getting spoiled, because the way I look at it, since I'm not a main character of any of the movies, I realize just how fortunate I am.

  Ken Jeong

  Character, Trying, Realizing

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Expression, Voice, Style

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• It's very difficult for me to travel now without music just because I'm so spoiled. It's a huge luxury to go and play your music for all these people around the world and having come up to you in a special way - they really want to show your their city, or really want to show you where they are from. If you are just traveling, you don't get that same welcome.

  Patrick Watson

  People, Special, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.

  Paul Tillich

  Pain, Work, Joy

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.145, U of Nebraska Press

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• I like variety, which is frustrating. But I've always been picky. I was afraid Pirates would be too much like Twentieth Century, broad comedy. But my agent talked me into it. I was spoiled by the range of a repertory theater.

  Kevin Kline

  Pirate, Comedy, Frustrating

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Direct, Amazing Experiences

  "Elizabeth Banks Talks PITCH PERFECT 2 (and 3), WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and THE LEGO MOVIE Sequel". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2015.

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• The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.

  Edmund White

  Winning, Attention, Might

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much.

  John Bellamy Foster

  Thinking, Guy, France

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• I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.

  Bill Mollison

  People, Urban, Permaculture

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.

  Frank Grillo

  Block, America, Two

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• There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

  Charles Dickens

  Hope, Heart, Lovely

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• The moment when I press the shutter is fantastic, orgasmic, so charged with the hope that this will be a great, original, interesting, and perfectly composed photo. But like any other exciting thing in life, it is usually spoiled by some ridiculous, unpredictable, and annoying detail.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Things In Life, Interesting, Details

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• I don't get my bliss by listening over and over to people in the street thinking, "Boy, is it that good?" Even though every time I hear it that's what I think. But I get it in human situations. There is this little voice that is going, "The reason you're able to enjoy your life now is that you made it in rock'n'roll and people are giving you free visas all over the place. Dude, you are being spoiled".

  Iggy Pop

  Boys, Thinking, People

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I don't like spoilers. I don't like things being spoiled.

  Melissa McBride

  Spoilers, Being Spoiled

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• The rain has spoiled the farmer's day;
  Shall sorrow put my books away?
  Thereby are two days lost.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Rain, Loss

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.116, Harvard University Press

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• Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures that they're writing about. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's probably more veracity of reporting in my work than there is in the newspapers.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Writing, Political, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.

  John Locke

  Men, Mind, Gold

  John Locke (1819). “An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].”, p.314

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• That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Animal, Air, Vegetables

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Philosophical. Essays and correspondence”, p.322

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• Hollywood industry people are very spoiled. I don't think they can adjust to the insane, no-money, super-hard working tradition of Japanese filmmaking. I don't think any American can go through that. They don't want to work more than twelve hours and they want Saturday and Sunday off.

  Ryuhei Kitamura

  Hard Work, Sunday, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm the youngest, too. When you're the youngest of a big family, people are like, "You're the baby, you're spoiled!" The fact of the matter is, when you're the youngest of a big family, by the time you're a teenager, your parents are insane. You're like, "Hey, I'm going roller-skating-" "You're not going roller-skating or you'll end up pregnant like your sister. Why don't you smoke pot and become a lawyer?"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Baby, Teenager

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• Before modern medicine, would pussies just generally rot up inside you and fall out of you like spoiled oysters on the sidewalk?

  Doug Stanhope

  Fall, Oysters, Medicine

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