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• I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

  Simon Schama

  New York, Green, Bigs

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• I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.

  Bill Ford

  Tobacco Industry, Proud, Danger

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• When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, Forever, Natural

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• The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.

  Ellen Willis

  Spiritual, Couple, Emotional

  Ellen Willis (2012). “Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

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• I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

  Denise Mina

  Shoes, Laughing, Way

  "Probing The Psyche Of Glasgow's Mean Streets". "Morning Edition" with Vicki Barker, www.npr.org. August 11, 2008.

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• When I started swimming again two years ago, it felt like I was starting from scratch. My mind-set was [to tell myself that] every time I swam, it was going to get easier-and it did. When you're working toward a fitness goal, you just need to start. It's not going to be pretty, your body is going to scream at you, but each time you'll get better.

  Janet Evans

  Swimming, Years, Two

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• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  Frances Mayes

  Grandfather, Cotton, Georgia

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• We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.

  Antonio Damasio

  Perception, Mind, Links

  "Self Comes To Mind". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. November 8, 2010.

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• If were honest, we all have some measure of wrong believing in our lives. If you dont believe this, all you need to do is ask yourself, Have I often felt anxious, worried, or fearful that the worst would happen to me and my loved ones?

  Joseph Prince

  Believe, Needs, Honest

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• I realized that performing was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company Synergy in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

  Catherine Mary Stewart

  Dancer, Gigs, Canada

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• I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

  Missy Peregrym

  Tough, Fit

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• I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

  Susanna Kaysen

  My Future, Needed, Wanted

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• Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Pain, Angel, Men

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• We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Feet, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Sadness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soul, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

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• I loved to dance and went to Studio 54 at least twice a week. But I always felt nervous around the people there. I was in awe of that whole Halston-Liza Minnelli crowd. To me, they were the real celebrities, and I was just a girl from Idaho.

  Margaux Hemingway

  Girl, Real, Idaho

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

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• When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. There is no middle ground where I come from, and I am only now beginning to get a sense that there is a middle ground at all.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Growing Up, Crazy, Two

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• Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

  Asif Ali Zardari

  Issues, Political, Democracy

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• I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

  Jerry Robinson

  Hero, Interesting, Exotic

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• I couldnt really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to.

  Charlie Trotter

  Party, People, Fraternity

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• I've had opportunities before to run for office - the Republicans recruited me when I was surgeon general, to run for Congress, to run against Gov. Napolitano. But I didn't feel it was my calling... I felt, 'Well, I'm flattered, but I really would rather stay and be the doctor of the nation and stay as surgeon general.'

  Richard Carmona

  Running, Opportunity, Doctors

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• I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.

  Raymond Moody

  Afterlife, Black, Way

  "Raymond Moody, Man Behind ‘Near-Death Experience’ Ponders The Afterlife" by Piet Levy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.

  Joe Torre

  Player, Play, Ifs

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• The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.

  Trinny Woodall

  New York, Godmother, Three

  "My life in shopping: Trinny Woodall". Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2008.

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