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• In a way, forgiving is only for the brave. It is for those people who are willing to confront their pain, accept themselves as permanently changed, and make difficult choices. Forgivers are not content to be stuck in a quagmire. They reject the possibility that the rest of their lives will be determined by the unjust and injurious acts of another person.

  Gordon Dalbey

  Pain, Difficult Choices, People

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• People think, 'She's a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.' But I'm normal. I cry. I'm not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.

  Summer Altice

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Rivers, Mind

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• A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

  Ariel Gore

  Psychology, Privilege, Rejects

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• R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).

  John Thomas Sladek

  Blood, Law, Dozen

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• Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Eye, Politics, Conversation

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• The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy.

  George Carlin

  Wings, Issues, Together

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• As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

  Julian Sands

  Maturity, Actors, Plateaus

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

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• I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside.

  Dave Matthews

  Hell, Closets

  "Song: 'So Much To Say"'". 1996.

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• Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Spring, Reality, Comedy

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.

  Channing Tatum

  Drama, Should Have, Play

  Interview with Marlon Wayans, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 16, 2009.

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• When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.

  Dean Martin

  Party, Ego, Mouths

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• Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.

  Rumi

  Love, Effort, Mud

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• I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

  Paula Poundstone

  Silly, Shoes, Paper

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• The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.

  William Safire

  New York, Long, Wonderful

  "William Safire dies at 79; speechwriter and Pulitzer-winning columnist" by Joe Holley, www.latimes.com. September 28, 2009.

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• In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Horse, Shoes, Space

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Powerful, Ideas, Long

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• Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

  William Saroyan

  Men, Self, Luck

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• If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

  Robert Fripp

  Materials, Can Do, Huge

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• I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street

  Sam Walton

  Reading, Learning, Hands

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.29, Bantam

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• Don't call me when you're stuck in traffic. It's not my fault that radio sucks and did it ever occur to you that there wouldn't be so much traffic if people like you put down the phone and concentrated on the road... besides I can't talk now, I'm in the car behind you trying to watch a DVD.

  Bill Maher

  Humorous, Phones, Dvds

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.30, Rodale

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• I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life.

  Donald Miller

  Dog, Writing, Sitting

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• Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me.

  Ellen Barkin

  Kids, Hard Times, Two

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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Men, World

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• The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

  Robert J. Wilson

  Fun, Freedom, Forever

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