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• Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Hate, Together, Strange

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• I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

  Rene Balcer

  Fall, Lap, Duty

  "The People v. The Torture Team: Six Questions for Law & Order’s René Balcer" by Scott Horton, harpers.org. October 5, 2009.

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• I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic like a self-absorbed ice queen.

  Megan Fox

  Queens, Thinking, Ice Queen

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• Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate.

  Elizabeth Inchbald

  Sex, Grief, Heart

  Elizabeth Inchbald (1808). “The British Theatre: Or, a Collection of Plays, which are Acted at the Theaters Royal ... : With Biographical and Critical Remarks. Such things are. Every one has his fault. Wifes as they were. Lover's vows. To marry or not to marry”

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• I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

  Susie Orbach

  Struggle, Writing, Trying

  Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.

  John Allen Fraser

  Difficult Situations, Needs, Assets

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• With women, you always have to make an educated decision to figure out what they're thinking. It's not one that's necessarily sympathetic, always. Of course, we're all human beings, but the gender thing is big thing. And a great thing.

  Will Oldham

  Thinking, Decision, Gender

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. September 1, 2001.

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• [On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.

  Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

  Spiritual, Art, Spring

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• In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

  Warren Buffett

  Giving, Weight, Way

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• My mind goes really quickly and I tend to talk really fast, as you've probably heard, I sometimes lose track of my syntax, as I'm talking that fast. The only thing I try to do, well, it's slow down, but also I do something when I'm reading that's similar to when I'm writing a section, which is to really try to imagine you on the other side, in a certain way, as an intelligent, sympathetic presence who's rooting for me to tell you a good story.

  George Saunders

  Reading, Writing, Intelligent

  "George Saunders: It's All About Suckage-Avoidance". Interview With Doug Polisin, www.audible.com. March 15, 2017.

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• The chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save us from the sympathetic smiles in the Sunday-night cinema queue, someone who can stop us from falling down into the pit where the permanently single live with their mums and dads.

  Nick Hornby

  Sex, Dad, Fall

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.152, Penguin

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• Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.

  Doug Casey

  Mean, Class, Government

  Doug Casey (2012). “Totally Incorrect”, p.93, Laissez Faire Books

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• The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Character, Creative, Actors

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• I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

  Alan Arkin

  Horse, Hard Times, Competition

  "OSCARS Q&A: Alan Arkin". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. February 9, 2013.

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• The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.

  Colin Thubron

  Writing, Needs, Tough

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• The essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor; namely, mutual understanding, and through such understanding, a sympathetic appeciation of the other's point of view. It is only in this manner that we can hope to build up a system of which confidence, friendship, and good will are the cornerstones.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Views, Understanding, Quality

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Selfish, War, People

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• It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine.

  Terry Gilliam

  Worry, Losing, Problem

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

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• I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

  Margaret Thatcher

  People, Unemployment, Unemployed

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.

  Erykah Badu

  Giving Up, Relax, Projects

  "Erykah Badu On Pyer Moss's Honest Activism". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• And he [Franklin Roosevelt] got the votes of every southern white voting state in the country and wouldn't have been elected president once, let alone four times, if he hadn't. Now, at the same time he acquired over the years a reputation for being sympathetic to blacks, and he got their votes, heaven knows.

  William A. Rusher

  Country, Years, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities. I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable. I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him. Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way... it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things.

  Adrian Matejka

  Character, Kids, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You either hear the story and you're curious, and you're sort of sympathetic, or you think, "Ugh, how horrible." That's dehumanizing. How about we take that and turn Christine Chubbuck into a person and it's not about the final act, it's about her life. I felt that really strongly, and I felt a sort of deep sympathy with her. It's also why I do what I do. I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.

  Rebecca Hall

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

  Chath Piersath

  Unique, Thinking, Events

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

  Allen W. Wood

  Tradition, Metaphysical, Theology

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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