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• An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

  Joseph Addison

  Conceited, Men, Talking

  Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.35

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• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  Halle Berry

  Underdog

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• I can't relate to these haters, my enemies never made it.

  Drake

  Hater, Humble, Enemy

  Song: The Resistance, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  History, Done, Historian

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.278, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.

  Artie Lange

  Morning, Real, Laughing

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• Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.

  Robert Lanza

  Reality, Views, Special

  "A New Theory of the Universe: Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the equation". theamericanscholar.org. March 1, 2007.

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• People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

  Bill Laswell

  Careers, People, Existence

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• I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Father, Mean, Way

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• I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Writing, Singing, Want

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

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• I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.

  Christian Louboutin

  Two Friends, People, Role Models

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• Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

  George Lucas

  Kids, School, Past

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

  John Thorn

  Failing, Egotistical, Concern

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• Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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• I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can't relate to 'Basketball Wives,' 'Housewives of Atlanta.' I am not judging or criticizing those shows at all; what I am saying is the perspective is not necessarily the male perspective. 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is inclusive of everyone.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Basketball, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Jamilah Lemieux, www.ebony.com. September 17, 2012.

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• Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Naked, Body, Tradition

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• I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

  Vera Wang

  Style, Culture, Architecture

  Interview with Evan Lysacek, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2010.

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• Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

  Isaac Watts

  Time, Understanding, Depth

  Isaac Watts, Philip Doddridge, David JENNINGS (1819). “The Improvement of the Mind ... By Isaac Watts, D.D. Also His Posthumous Works Published from His Manuscripts by D. Jennings, D.D. and P. Doddridge”, p.21

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• In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can't really be applied to a nine-to-five.

  Johnny Weir

  Vintage, Skills, Speaks French

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• Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.

  Joss Whedon

  Team, Writing, Mean

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• Making 'The Avengers' was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my home, so I decided to throw them all on camera, which is the only way I seem to know to relate to people.

  Joss Whedon

  Home, People, Important

  "Joss Whedon Q&A On Eve Of SXSW". Interview with Jen Yamato, deadline.com. March 7, 2013.

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• I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

  Kristen Wiig

  Life, Moving, People

  "Kristen Wiig, Dirtector Paul Feig and Producer Judd Apatow Interview BRIDESMAIDS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The struggle of my life created empathy... I could relate to pain... being abandoned... having people not love me.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Pain, Struggle

  "Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, Interviews Oprah Winfrey Live Online". Interview with Sheryl Sandberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.

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• Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

  Yelawolf

  Struggle, Asian, Get Up

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• With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

  Neil Young

  Life, Song, Thinking

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• I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to support my young son. There's what frames my view on the topics I discuss on my shows, and the average person relates to that. No matter how many degrees I have now, I lived that life, and that comes through to the people watching.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Jobs, Father, Son

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