One Sided Quotes - Page 3

• This thing with everyone knowing you it’s weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don’t really know myself that well.

  Robert Pattinson

  Knowing, People, Looks

  "Robert Pattinson On Kristen Stewart, The Drawbacks Of Fame, His Admiration For Charlie Sheen, And His True Favorite Co-Star". Vanity Fair Interview, www.vanityfair.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could].

  Charlize Theron

  Country, Sleep, Gay

  "Charlize Theron: I Won’t Get Married Until My Gay Friends Can", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I despise this weakness in myself - this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action.

  Stef Penney

  Weakness, Action, Despise

  Stef Penney (2008). “The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• On the seemingly one-sided relationship between Michael Jordan and his shoe sponsors Nike- The company should change its name to Mike.

  Alvin Robertson

  Funny, Basketball, Nike

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• Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Clever, True Power, Expression

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• Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spiritual, Real, Men

  "Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1922.

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• Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Moral, Purity, Satire

  E.L. Doctorow (2008). “Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006”, p.70, Random House

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• Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of us had needed it. And when I wasn’t watching I could hear the others talking to those they loved on Earth: just as fruitlessly as me, I’m afraid. A one-sided card cajoling and coaching of the young, a one way loving and desiring of their mates, a single-sided card that could never get signed.

  Alice Sebold

  Talking, Heaven, Coaching

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• The language of Christianity is the language of substitution. It is not primarily the language of morals. God is not presented as a mother saying “eat all your vegetables”. Instead, Christianity is about a one-sided rescue, that we didn’t want and certainly didn’t deserve, and he did it anyway.

  Rod Rosenbladt

  Mother, Vegetables, Want

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• It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Girl, Stupid, Believe

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• Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Girl, Two, White

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• Learn to think and judge for yourself, responsibly. Don't accept everything without criticism and as absolutely true, everything which is brought to your attention. Learn from life. The biggest mistake of my life was that I believed everything faithfully which came from the top, and I didn't dare to have the least bit of doubt about the truth of that which was presented to me. Walk through life with your eyes open. Don't become one-sided; examine the pros and cons in all matters.

  Rudolf Hoss

  Mistake, Eye, Thinking

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• Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good.
  I have become, you might call it mature - I would call it senile - and I can see both sides. But you can't write a satirical song with 'but on the other hand' in it, or 'however'. It's got to be one-sided.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Sydney Morning Herald interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates.

  Sarah MacLean

  Selfish, Doe, Gabriel

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• Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Direct Action, Social Values, Expression

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• At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

  Leonard Woolf

  Giving, Portraits, Diaries

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• Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided. The invention of the printing press is an excellent example. Printing fostered the modern idea of individuality but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and social integration.

  Neil Postman

  Technology, Technological Change, Ideas

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• You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

  Ice Cube

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

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• Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

  Franz Kafka

  Train Of Thought, Educated, Single Word

  Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir (1958). “The castle”, Schocken

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• I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Perfect, Guy, Romance

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• I think that today, integration is the name of the game and not separating these things out, and not trying to find the razor's edge, the narrow path. There's a lot of lanes in the highway, the trick is not fall into the ditches on either side, like a one sided nihilism, nothing matters life.

  Surya Das

  Fall, Thinking, Games

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I've dominated a majority of my opponents. Very few people I only win against. Most of the time it's pretty one-sided. That's success to me.

  Jon Jones

  Winning, People, Majority

  "Exclusive interview: Jon Jones talks arrest, UFC 197 bout with St. Preux". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. April 19, 2016.

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• A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world.

  Alicia Keys

  Opportunity, Watches, World

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• The Middle East is rejecting any other religions, so it's a one sided multiculturalism.

  Mark Durie

  Middle East, Multiculturalism, Rejecting

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We've done a lot of films now about the IRA, we can move on from all that. I loved '71 because I think it showed a very honest trail and what it was actually like. It wasn't one-sided. I really respect ['71 director] Yann [Demange] for what he did. But we have done a lot of those things.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Moving, Thinking, Directors

  "Saoirse Ronan’s First Sundance". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 2, 2015.

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