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• Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they are scrutinized for evidence that they lack masculine (instrumental) characteristics as well as for signs that they no longer possess female (expressive) ones. They are taken to fail, in other words, both as a male and as a female.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Taken, Trying, Males

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1995). “Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership”, p.125, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

  Criss Jami

  Honesty, Humility, Pride

  Criss Jami (2011). “Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, or his voice would suddenly sound instead of the words I tried to write on a page. ... I found love annoying and uncomfortable, like fetters, until I got used to it.

  Nora Waln

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road.

  Tibor Fischer

  Men, Doors, Order

  Tibor Fischer (1997). “The Thought Gang”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to another hemisphere, where they are more or less alone.

  Marcel Proust

  Stars, Real, Tired

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.64, Wordsworth Editions

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• At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time.

  Frank Sinatra

  Heart, Long, Important

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• Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.

  Isaac Watts

  Men, Mind, Lovely

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• Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Age, Aftermath

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4992, Delphi Classics

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• As far as the future for the Showtime episodes that have already aired, we are sold into syndication so we'll be appearing primarily on the Fox syndicated networks and then eventually the SCI FI Channel. So, we'll be around for a while.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Foxes, Sci Fi, Episodes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap.

  Kim Campbell

  Gowns, Evening, Banquets

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• I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.

  Meg Tilly

  Fashion, Perfect, Conscious

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• The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.

  Fanny Kemble

  Character, Evil, Soul

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• I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

  Federico Fellini

  Light, Darkness, Cinema

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• Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

  Chris Elliott

  Television, Accepted, Wanted

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• To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

  Criss Jami

  Eye, Risk, Negative

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.68, Criss Jami

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• There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

  Toni Collette

  Challenges, Actors, Becoming

  "Touchy, feely, Toni" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while recording and appearing as a solo artist as well. Unnur has joined me as an unpaid guest on a few Icelandic shows in recent years, so it is a great pleasure to return the favour and appear on one of her songs at last. This new track, Sunshine, came about in Italy, written as an ode to sunlight and happiness after fleeing the dark winter in Iceland

  Ian Anderson

  Song, Sunshine, Dark

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• The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original film was. Even if Part II were a lot more cohesive, revealing and exciting than it is, it probably would have run the risk of appearing to be the self-parody it now seems…Its insights are fairly lame at this point.

  Vincent Canby

  Running, Self, Risk

  "‘Godfather, Part II’ Is Hard to Define" by Vincent Canby, www.nytimes.com. December 13, 1974.

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• Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Real, Attention

  "Miss Manners: Don't post anything that might offend a future boss" by Judith Martin, www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2014.

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• I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

  Robert Toombs

  Country, Regret, Addresses

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3

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• One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Want, Awful

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

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• Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Genius, Censorship, Fragments

  Nadine Gordimer (2011). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.411, A&C Black

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• Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Reality, Brain, World

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• One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

  Camille Pissarro

  Beautiful, Lovely, Littles

  In a letter to his son Lucien, 26 July 1892, as quoted in "Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 146, 1963.

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• Love is a grin, a look in the eye whispering what are we doing, appearing in silly arguments had for the sake of them.

  Craig Stone

  Silly, Eye, Love Is

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