attitude
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘attitude’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.” -Jessica Brown Findlay
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“My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good… I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx – though this undoubtedly will be suggested – but from Fichte and Hegel.” -John Grierson
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“There’s a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to ‘Hated.’ There’s even a punk-rock attitude to ‘The Hangover,’ I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.” -Todd Phillips
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“The American attitude is ‘We’re the best’. That’s why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.” -Andrew Bogut
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“The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.” -Major Owens
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“I’m not anti-fashion, but I’ve always had a bit of a punk attitude. That’s important, I think. I do my own thing.” -Sade Adu
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“To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.” -George H. Mead
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“The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.” -Carroll Quigley
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“My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: ‘whatever makes you happy.’” -Sally Hawkins
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“You don’t have to have an attitude if you’re famous.” -Adriana Lima
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“When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.” -Christian Louboutin
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“I’m just part of a tradition of people who aren’t pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I’d just think they’re… sensible.” -Jack Dee
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“The key to life is your attitude. Whether you’re single or married or have kids or don’t have kids, it’s how you look at your life, what you make of it. It’s about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.” -Candace Bushnell
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“If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.” -Teri Garr
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“Whenever I’m having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.” -Michael Clarke Duncan
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“But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.” -Cliff Richard
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“But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.” -Rob Zombie
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“What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, ‘Oh, our attitude has changed. We don’t dislike these people any more.’ But by the strangest coincidence, they haven’t taken away the injustice the laws are still on the books.” -Christopher Isherwood
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“There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.” -Eliza Dushku
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“The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.” -Steve Forbes
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“Regardless of what one’s attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.” -William Lyon Mackenzie King
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“At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.” -Seamus Heaney
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“Even if people do wrong, we’re social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are ‘bad’ or ‘evil’ is just an unwillingness to engage an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn’t help anyone.” -Denise Mina
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“People have often asked if I’m gay because I don’t go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.” -Jason Bateman
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“I don’t return anybody’s calls unless it’s going to mean extra money for me. And I’ve completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I’ve copped an attitude.” -Mike Judge
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“A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.” -Joan Lunden
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“It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, ‘Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood’, but I didn’t feel that way at all. It’s all about the attitude at home.” -Carol Vorderman
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“Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today’s standards.” -Joseph Ratzinger
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“The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.” -Herbert Read
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“If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.” -Charles Revson
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“Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.” -Waylon Jennings
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“I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who’s not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.” -Diane Lane
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“I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.” -Boomer Esiason
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“Vampires are so old that they don’t need to impress anyone anymore. They’re comfortable in their own skin. It’s this enigmatic strength that’s very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who’s going to look after his woman.” -Stephen Moyer
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“What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.” -Nia Vardalos
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“I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.” -Chevy Chase
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“And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don’t play that… My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground.” -Mark Wahlberg
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“Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.” -Shawn Ashmore
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“If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.” -John McCarthy
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“The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it’s an example of freedom from religion.” -Tom Wolfe
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“Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.” -Walter Pater
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“Players should know that if you can’t make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.” -Sue Wicks
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“It’s not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.” -Herbie Hancock
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“The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.” -Boris Spassky
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“We assume that we’ve come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It’s easy to forget that there are so many people starving to…
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“When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.” -Robert Evans
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“What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?” -Ian Mcewan
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“My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.” -Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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“Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers – and before it can be his, it is hers alone.” -Margaret Sanger
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“Even as a little child, I’ve always had that comedian kind of attitude.” -Etta James
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“In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.” -Henri Bergson
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“In the late ’70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn’t do TV and vice versa, but that’s gone now.” -Robert Carlyle
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“I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.” -Ariel Sharon
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“I love her attitude, but as much as I’d like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.” -Mary Lou Retton
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“We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.” -Lawrence Eagleburger
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“The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.” -Helmut Jahn
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“I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.” -Geddy Lee
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“I have a political attitude, but I’m certainly not a politician.” -Kgalema Motlanthe
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“I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.” -Jeffrey Archer
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“I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that’s put into your head. You are never thin enough.” -Carmen Electra
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“I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother’s poor mental health.” -Jean Piaget
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“With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That’s why they’re playing first class cricket. It’s just a different attitude.” -Shane Warne
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“Right after ‘Raymond’ I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don’t like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. ‘What is my purpose? Who am I?’ I had a big identity crisis.” -Ray Romano
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“What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.” -Marcel Marceau
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“My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there’s a challenge, go for it. If there’s a wall to break down, break it down.” -Donny Osmond
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“Just as the left has to be more willing to question ‘Government knows best,’ the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.” -Jack Kemp
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“The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.” -Jose Saramago
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“Although as a sailor I despised politics – for I loved my sailor’s life and still love it today – conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.” -Fritz Sauckel
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“How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man? You go to work.” -Patrick Swayze
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“The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.” -Alan Shepard
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“It was my father who instilled the ‘never say no’ attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.” -Marlee Matlin
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“I went to England in the ’70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn’t regarded as having much cultural value. We…
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“For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.” -Joseph Brodsky
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“Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite – it is, or should be, a central,…
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“Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they’re made, they never seem quite as sacred again.” -Lev Grossman
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“I was bringing my attitude as a regular person ’cause this is my attitude.” -Glenn Danzig
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“I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I’d come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann’s Pop’Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over ‘All My Children’ and Erica, her clothes, and…
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“Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it…
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“You can’t beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.” -Rob Sheffield
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“I haven’t seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven’t seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it – see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.” -Lawrence Kasdan
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“My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.” -Sally Kirkland
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“Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.” -Lascelles Abercrombie
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“When you retire, it’s a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don’t quit work you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.” -Tom T. Hall
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“My attitude is, do as much as I can while I’m free. And if I’m arrested I’ll still do as much as I can.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“Oh, I don’t think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That’s not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he’d prefer me to do it than somebody else.” -Clarence Thomas
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“I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I’d have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life’s way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.” -Sara…
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“There are a lot of movies I’d like to throw away. That’s not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don’t work.” -Kiefer Sutherland
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“Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it’s much more partisan and much more divided.” -Leon Panetta
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“That term’s definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer – whether male or female – who gets on that stage…
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“The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.” -Dick Cheney
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“I perfectly understood President Obama’s attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It’s the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.” -Francois Hollande
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“I think it has something to do with being British. We don’t take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously I find that a very tedious attitude.” -Joan Collins
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“Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.” -Nick Clegg
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“I’ve always had a ‘Work hard, play hard’ attitude to life – I still do – but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.” -Damian Lewis
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“I’ve always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain – its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.” -Gary Numan
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“There is a brief moment when all there is in a man’s mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.” -Yousuf Karsh
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“I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I’ve always known it was better to be seen and not heard.” -Eric Davis
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“I’ve never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We’re all very close friends so it’s very much a professional attitude.” -Richard Fleeshman
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“Nothing. We’re all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we’re dealing with, there’s usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that’s floating around.” -Richard Dean Anderson
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“I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.” -Yani Tseng
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“I’m taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.” -Christopher Nolan
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“You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.” -Allen Klein
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“The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.” -Milan Kundera
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“I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for…
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“I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude – he wasn’t a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.” -Ritchie Blackmore
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“The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.” -Arthur Ashe
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“An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth – in short, materialism – does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.” -E. F. Schumacher
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“What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.” -V. S. Naipaul
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“Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.” -Harold Pinter
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“I don’t mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.” -Gwen Stefani
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“I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.” -Tom Petty
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“All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.” -Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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“An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.” -Johan Huizinga
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“Attitude is attitude, whether you’re a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?” -Paul Walker
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“You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven’t got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don’t need, you can’t be white.” -Dick Gregory
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“Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.” -Carrie Underwood
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“It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.” -Walter Benjamin
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“Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.” -Heather O’Reilly
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“No one’s going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.” -Rupert Murdoch
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“My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my ‘Top Ten’ friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.” -Julie Burchill
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“If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.” -Satish Kumar
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“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.” -James Truslow Adams
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“The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.” -Harold S. Geneen
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“Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas – an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.” -Morris Raphael Cohen
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“The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.” -Johnny Thunders
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“I think it’s your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that’s a waste of a lovely life. ‘Oh… I’m 30, oh, I’m 40, oh, 50.’ Make the most of it.” -Betty White
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“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.” -Willem de Kooning
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“Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.” -Asa Gray
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“I’ve never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn’t have the right attitude, didn’t give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it wasn’t prepared and didn’t have the whole program worked out.” -Ted Turner
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“That’s what I love from metal, and that’s what I love from hip-hop. That’s what I love from any music that’s hard, that’s got an edge to it-The attitude in it.” -Kid Rock
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“That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.” -June Jordan
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“People think, ‘She’s a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.’ But I’m normal. I cry. I’m not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.” -Summer Altice
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“There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.” -Arthur Erickson
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“We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a ‘what-can-you-do-for-me?’ attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.” -Benjamin Carson
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“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.” -Katherine Mansfield
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“I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.” -Imelda Marcos
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“It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.” -Adam Savage
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“It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‘Well, yeah,’ but you start to think, ‘Why not, though?’ What makes one more valuable than another?” -David Byrne
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“I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn’t about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.” -Hollis Stacy
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“It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that’s not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.” -Shania Twain
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“I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I’ll admire it but I wouldn’t copy their style.” -Michael Hutchence
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“My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.” -Duke Ellington
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“The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
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“Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.” -Jessica Savitch
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“We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.” -Henry Louis Gates
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“It’s a question of keeping one’s eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They’re watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.” -Charles Dance
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“Yes, we’re still five little people with a noisy attitude.” -Angus Young
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“In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.” -Clara Zetkin
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“On ‘Van Halen,’ I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I’d say that at the time of ‘Fair Warning,’ I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people’s minds I’m just a gunslinger.” -Eddie Van Halen
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“Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one’s head as a designer.” -Vera Wang
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“There’s always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.” -Pat Riley
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“I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.” -Richard Pryor
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“What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I’m a numbers guy, that’s my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I’m in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That’s exactly what…
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“I developed a nutty attitude where I’d think, If some guy really loves me he doesn’t care if I’m fat. I’d come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.” -Kirstie Alley
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“Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don’t get through.” -Lesley Gore
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“When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I’ve worked in Europe, I’ve worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.” -Hugh Jackman
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“Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.” -Paul Valery
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“Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.” -Francis Parker Yockey
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“A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.” -Tom Brady
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“So long as you’ve got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don’t really have to care what everyone else thinks.” -Gail Porter
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“I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.” -Jimmy Carter
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“My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find ’em, kill ’em.” -Loretta Lynn
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“Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.” -Josh McDowell
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“You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, ‘What’s in it for me?’” -Lewis Grizzard
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“The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.” -Ivan Illich
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“I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck’s a little bit bent and it’s a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.” -Jack White
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“Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.” -Billy Corgan
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“Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.” -Wade Boggs
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“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.” -Alan Watts
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“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.” -Earl Nightingale
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“The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.” -Raymond Chandler
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“When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.” -Charles R. Swindoll
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“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.” -Walter Scott
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