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• In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

  Warren Buffett

  Giving, Weight, Way

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• There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

  Alexander Siddig

  Roles, West, Enough

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• It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine.

  Terry Gilliam

  Worry, Losing, Problem

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

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• There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mother, Voice, Tears

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)”, p.223, Random House

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• If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always...always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears. Look for the whole person. Judge him as the whole person.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Pride, Past

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• The dismissive notion that conservatives leak to outlets on the right for ideological reasons ignores the fact that liberals often do the same thing with news organizations that are either left-of-center or likely to be sympathetic to the message being peddled.

  Howard Kurtz

  Organization, News, Politics

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• 1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Years, Looks, Pleasure

  1992 Speech at the Guildhall, 24 Nov.

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• Women most certainly carry a more sympathetic heart in the traditional, classic sense the mother archetype. They have been given the role to carry the heart energy of the human community, whereas men carry the survival energy.

  Caroline Myss

  Mother, Heart, Men

  Source: www.shareguide.com

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• The hour on stage is rarely a drag. In fact, I can't really say that its ever a drag. The few times that its been challenging has been when you don't have a sympathetic audience or there is the occasional strange corporate gig or something that you take or that you're not sure and you're like, "Wait a second. That's just the wrong venue".

  Joel Plaskett

  Waiting, Challenges, Gigs

  "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". Interview with Colton Eddy, October 11, 2013.

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• The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Age, Faces

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts. But now I'm much more sympathetic to a director's struggle.

  Robert Redford

  Struggle, Waiting Around, Nuts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Love Is, Shining

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.158, New World Library

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• Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

  David Brooks

  Self

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• Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, People, Use

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.10, Princeton University Press

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• A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.203

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• In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

  Albert Einstein

  Teaching, Geography And History, Understanding

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.103, Princeton University Press

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• There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Selfish, War, People

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• The essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor; namely, mutual understanding, and through such understanding, a sympathetic appeciation of the other's point of view. It is only in this manner that we can hope to build up a system of which confidence, friendship, and good will are the cornerstones.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Views, Understanding, Quality

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.

  Colin Thubron

  Writing, Needs, Tough

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• The chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save us from the sympathetic smiles in the Sunday-night cinema queue, someone who can stop us from falling down into the pit where the permanently single live with their mums and dads.

  Nick Hornby

  Sex, Dad, Fall

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.152, Penguin

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• I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

  Margaret Thatcher

  People, Unemployment, Unemployed

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Intelligent, Vanity, Ideas

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• The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Character, Creative, Actors

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• Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential good, but with equal clarity they saw the religions of existing institutions and religions based on a fixed scriptural revelation as meddlesome, wrong-headed and hopelessly obsolete.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Father, Atheism, Enlightenment

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• I have children. I have other concerns. I have other focuses. I really feel very sympathetic and I would love to be able to help but I don't see this as the opportunity, having done 'Extraordinary measures', for me to suddenly leap on a soap box and begin to talk about the pharmaceutical industry or the desperate plight of sick children. I do what I can in my world but I don't have the bona fides to do that right now.

  Harrison Ford

  Children, Opportunity, Sick

  "Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES". collider.com. January 17, 2010.

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