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• What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.

  Laozi

  Kings, People, Taoism

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• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

  Fiona Shaw

  Theatre, Sometimes, Theater

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• I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Dollars

  "Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind". TV Special, November 22, 2010.

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• Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.

  B. J. Chute

  Writing, Support You, Bores You

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• Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.

  Azar Nafisi

  Sex, Islamic, Republic

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.329, Random House

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• I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.

  Helen Mirren

  Hate, Chicks, Chick Flick

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• An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

  Stephen Stills

  Art, Giving Up, People

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• Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.

  Laozi

  Compassion, People, Water

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• Love will not be spurred to what it loathes

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.110, Oxford University Press

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• In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test myself in front of other people.

  Naomi Uemura

  People, Solitude, Tests

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• Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Country, Patriotic, Artist

  Letter to Henry Miller, 1948.

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• Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

  Robin Leach

  Travel, Bangkok, Persons

  "Rish & Famous". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.

  S. J. Perelman

  Writing, Hands, Believer

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• She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

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• Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, thus confronting them with the possibility of insignificance.

  Thomas Szasz

  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

  Thomas Szasz (2017). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.109, Routledge

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• The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  War, People, Evil

  Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.313, University of Toronto Press

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• Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks.

  Gershon Legman

  Hate, Women, Reason

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• I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

  Max Beckmann

  Tears, Slavery

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• While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to do so without hesitation.

  Larry Evans

  Knights, Bishops, Cadillacs

  Larry Evans (1974). “How to Open a Chess Game”

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• Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

  Tony Snow

  Thug, Civilization, Liberty

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• A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Feminist, Modesty, Being A Woman

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• Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.

  Russell Baker

  School, Yale, Ivy

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• This word "redemption," what is it about this word? Is it tangible? Do you know when it has happened? Is it necessary in a drama? Does it make a character boring? Does everyone agree on a character being "redeemed?" Or is it a word that is so subjective and polarizing and insignificant in modern television? It is a word that has been given, quite possibly, far too much significance, when it is truly ambiguous and meaningless in a drama. I have personally grown to loathe that word in literature.

  Michael Muhney

  Drama, Character, Doe

  Source: soaps.sheknows.com

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• What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about talking to you. When someone tells me a thing that happened, what do I feel inside? I want to get the story out. It's for the person who reads it to have the feeling . . . In most cases the person I encounter is not a celebrity; rather the ordinary person. "Ordinary" is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. (p. 176)

  Studs Terkel

  Air, Talking, People

  "Touch and Go: A Memoir". Book By Studs Terkel, 2007.

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• Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

  Paul Valery

  Sorry, Men, Giving

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