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• But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.

  Michael Faraday

  Science, Ideas, Atoms

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• It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Book, Thinking, Wife

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• I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.

  Tom DeLonge

  Thinking, Wife, Band

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• The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

  John Kricfalusi

  Writing, Department, Layout

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• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  Jack Osbourne

  Brother, Priorities, Attention

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• Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.

  Louise Penny

  Writing, Self, Genius

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• In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

  Hamish Linklater

  Jobs, Would Be, Unemployment

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• Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Self

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• Stop being jealous, I mean, to be jealous is to suggest that God doesn't know what she is doing. This is ridiculous! She does everything perfectly

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Mean, Buddhism

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• Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Opposites

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• If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Energy

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• Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Finding Yourself

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• Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Buddhism, Meditation

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• I was massively jealous but also excited when Tarantino did Inglourious Basterds, I'm a huge guys on a mission fan. Those kind of movies.

  Duncan Jones

  Guy, Fans, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought.

  Robert Greene

  Jealousy, Sweet, Love Is

  Robert Greene, George Peele (1861). “The dramatic and poetical works of Robert Greene & George Peele: with memoirs of the authors and notes”, p.311

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• In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Real, Eye

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.209

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• God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.

  Emily Dickinson

  Play, Envy, Bears

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2001, Delphi Classics

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• A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Reflection, Self, Littles

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.77

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• Fame is a jealous mistress
  And will brook no rival.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Mistress, Rivals, Fame

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• They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Nature, Flower, Tree

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• The one thing I'm jealous of a signature-artist situation is that if you just do one thing and slight variations on it, you wouldn't have to kill yourself to get a show done. I'm sick of killing myself.

  Jim Shaw

  Artist, Sick, Signatures

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How many of those who are insecure seek power over others as a compensation for inadequacy and wind up bringing consequences down upon their heads and those around them? How many hide out in their lives, resist the summons to show up, or live fugitive lives, jealous, projecting onto others, and then wonder why nothing ever really feels quite right. How many proffer compliance with the other, buying peace at the price of soul, and wind up with neither?

  James Hollis

  Insecure, Wind, Soul

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• I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.

  Leah Remini

  Laughter, Children, Kids

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

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• My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

  E. Lockhart

  Life, Girl, Thinking

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• Money is like a jealous lover. Ignore it and it will ignore you, or worse, it will leave you for someone who makes it a priority.

  Grant Cardone

  Priorities, Lovers

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2017

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