Sensitive Quotes - Page 32

• My mother was one of the most beautiful women, I have to say, of her generation. She was absolutely lovely. She was a very, extremely sensitive, Irish actress. She came from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and she came to London, and she was sort of discovered by several people.

  Angela Lansbury

  Beautiful, Mother, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  People, Feelings, Type

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• I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.

  Hillary Clinton

  Sensitive Person, Want, Poverty

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• Hitler had charm, loved children, charmed women. But in political respects he would stop at nothing. In other respects he had soft and touching emotions. Just as he could be terribly brutal in following up political ideas, so he could be humanely sensitive for the feelings of individuals, for the individual human life.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Children, Ideas, Political

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• For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Grateful, Dwarves, Despair

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• I'm not a militant, drug-taking freak! I'm sensitive.

  Joshua Homme

  Drug, Freak, Militant

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• One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.

  John Muir

  Book, Soul, One Day

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As sensitive and broad-minded humans, we must never allow ourselves to be in any way judgmental of the religious practices of other people, even when these people clearly are raving space loons.

  Dave Barry

  Religious, Space, Practice

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up”, p.47, Ballantine Books

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• It takes a real man to wear silk! There aren't a lot of manly men in rock and roll because it's all about cross-dressing to a degree. You have to be kind of sensitive to be in rock and roll.

  Kemp Muhl

  Real, Men, Rocks

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• It's always hard to talk about the culture that you are from, especially with Islam, it is a very sensitive subject and I don't want to be seen to be adding to the problems of Islam and the west.

  Jacques Myard

  Islam, Culture, Want

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?

  Henry James

  Ambition, Artist, Essence

  Henry James (1984). “Literary Criticism: French writers. Other European writers. The prefaces to the New York edition”, p.414, Library of America

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• If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.

  George Harrison

  Past, Car, Skins

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• You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Darkness, Way

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• When you're blessed, you've got to be sensitive to people that don't have and need to depend on somebody else to eat.

  Brandon T. Jackson

  Blessed, People, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.

  Paul Auster

  Appreciation, Art, Thinking

  "I want to tell you a story" by Paul Auster, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2006.

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• There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.

  Colin Angle

  Opportunity, Entrepreneur, Decision

  "iRobot CEO: Enough with the gimmick 'bots (Q & A)". Interview with Martin Lamonica, www.cnet.com. November 4, 2011.

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• When I take photographs, my body inevitably enters a trancelike state. Briskly weaving my way through the avenues, every cell in my body becomes as sensitive as radar, responsive to the life of the streets... If I were to give it words, I would say: "I have no choice... I have to shoot this... I can't leave this place for another's eyes... I have to shoot it... I have no choice." An endless, murmuring refrain.

  Daido Moriyama

  Eye, Cells, Giving

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• The actor's relationship to the crew is really a big dynamic that influences everything. When actors are assholes, it becomes problematic. When actors are great and sensitive and prepared, it makes a huge difference.

  Paris Barclay

  Differences, Actors, Influence

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm too sensitive. I could not show up to a murder scene and do anything like that. It would break me instantly.

  Yasmin Paige

  Murder, Scene, Break

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds or subtracts.

  Paul Strisik

  Cameras, Add, Facts

  Paul Strisik, Charles Movalli (1980). “The art of landscape painting”

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• Keep thinking, keep interested, keep praying, keep dreaming. Be mentally sensitive at all times so that the magic word that motivates you may one day speak to your deep inner self.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Dream, Thinking, Self

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Artist, Jars, Paid

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• What you are is a human being, sensitive and alive, with genius inside of you. Not only that, but you are one of a kind. There has never been anyone like you before. You see the world in a unique way because you have unique gifts. That's the way nature made you. And it will feel like nothing less than fulfilling your destiny to follow those gifts to a rich and exciting life, full of purpose and meaning and enjoyment.

  Barbara Sher

  Unique, Destiny, Purpose

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• I'm very sensitive to energy and people and life and animals and a lot of things.

  Kim Basinger

  Animal, People, Energy

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• TV is a very sensitive thing. If you're not happy with what you're doing, I don't think you should do it because you will do it for awhile.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Thinking, Tvs, Not Happy

  Source: collider.com

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