relationships

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘relationships’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek.” -John R. Allen

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  • “I’d fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.” -Aron Ralston

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  • “I met Roy’s father once… And I think that Roy’s relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he’s trying to prove himself to a father he’ll never really please.” -Jim Lampley

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  • “With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.” -Maurice Jarre

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  • “There is one question that I don’t think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.” -Barbara Olson

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  • “It’s just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.” -Bruce Greenwood

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  • “I’ve been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She’s incredibly strong she’s incredibly generous. She’s seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.” -Jeanne Tripplehorn

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  • “I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.” -Pat Conroy

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  • “I am looking for a character that connects to me on some level. It has to be about something, it has to have depth to it and it has to be about something. The story of the character and their relationship with the people and places around them appeal to me and are what I…

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  • “I would stay on, but ‘General Hospital’ honestly doesn’t seem to want that relationship with this character at the moment. They want little short doses during sweeps periods.” -Genie Francis

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  • “I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that’s never been my experience in a relationship. I think it’s much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.” -Whitney…

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  • “You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He’s entitled to have his opinion.” -Pete Sessions

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  • “In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.” -Carol Gilligan

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  • “If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That’s what I did. I got caught.” -Alexandra Guarnaschelli

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  • “The relationship between press and politician – protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial – becomes sour, raw and confrontational.” -Roger Mudd

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  • “My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were…

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  • “We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter’s administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration’s problems.” -Jim Hunt

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  • “I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed it is of the closest and more full of passion…

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  • “But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film’s about. A very straightforward young woman who’s very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.” -Jenny Agutter

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  • “I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar, is Bill Clinton not Gennifer Flowers, not Kathleen Willey, not Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky, at this point. He is the only proven liar.” -Gennifer Flowers

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  • “The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I’m from. Well, I can’t write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.” -Billy Ray Cyrus

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  • “I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.” -Ira Levin

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  • “I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don’t think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.” -Dyan Cannon

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  • “I can’t get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.” -Margaret Smith

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  • “My relationship with ‘Pollyanna’ is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.” -Eleanor Porter

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  • “French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.” -Ali A. Saleh

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  • “Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I’ll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.” -Tibor Benedek

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  • “When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.” -DeForest Soaries

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  • “India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.” -Pierre Pettigrew

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  • “My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.” -Trevor Phillips

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  • “He didn’t want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn’t name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.” -George Herbert Walker

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  • “My relationship to gravity is permanently altered.” -Steven Jesse Bernstein

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  • “I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.” -Yulia Tymoshenko

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  • “There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn’t like what our parents had.” -Lynette Fromme

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  • “In the past I would self destruct when it came to love – I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.” -Elisabetta Canalis

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  • “I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.” -Michelle Trachtenberg

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  • “My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.” -Dolph Lundgren

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  • “Comic timing… is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.” -Colleen Haskell

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  • “In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.” -Eddie Murphy

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  • “I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs – a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.” -Peter Jurasik

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  • “Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.” -Paul Berg

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  • “I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I’d adopt.” -Courtney Thorne Smith

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  • “We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.” -Bob Cousy

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  • “In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he’s in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he’s swinging through the city.” -John Dykstra

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  • “I think when you’re trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn’t actually exist, perhaps sometimes there’s a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more.” -Paul Bettany

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  • “My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn’t happen very often.” -Saku Koivu

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  • “Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.” -Bennett Miller

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  • “I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn’t want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I…

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  • “Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.” -Paul Henderson

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  • “But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we’re just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.” -David Herbert Donald

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  • “It is not really our country so much is the problem, it’s sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.” -Bob Corker

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  • “One of the beauties of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.” -Stellan Skarsgard

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  • “I’m receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.” -Karen Kingsbury

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  • “It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn’t give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business – or so he said.” -Lisa Snowdon

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  • “I wasn’t smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.” -Michael Ealy

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  • “I’m the kind of guy who can’t keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.” -Jerry O’Connell

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  • “I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.” -Naveen Andrews

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  • “I think it really makes a difference when you know the people that you’re working with, when you develop a relationship.” -Alexa Vega

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  • “I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.” -Dante Hall

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  • “I still like the relationship part of any story. You don’t want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.” -Lisa Gardner

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  • “There’s a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There’s kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That’s one of the things that makes it stressful, and that’s something that’s nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.” -Jeremy Sisto

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  • “First play I ever did was ‘Footloose.’ I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher’s jeans and her belt – that’s how small I was. I know a lot of Willard’s back story from the musical that’s not explored in the film. Like he’s got this…

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  • “There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it’s a very close relationship. We can do that because we’re so small.” -James Laughlin

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  • “Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.” -Gerry Cooney

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  • “It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn’t want the question raised, ‘What’s your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?’ And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn’t want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash…

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  • “A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that’s nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.” -Maximilian Schell

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  • “I’m a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I’ll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out.” -Jennifer Love Hewitt

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  • “I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.” -Jan de Bont

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  • “I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.” -Ezra Cornell

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  • “EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.” -Claudio Reyna

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  • “I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.” -Leon Uris

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  • “The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.” -Louis Kronenberger

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  • “Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let’s not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.” -John W. Thompson

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  • “It’s as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.” -Jim Hodges

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  • “I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.” -Ricky Martin

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  • “One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.” -Mary Gordon

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  • “I’m open-minded. I don’t consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I’ve had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.” -Dana Plato

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  • “We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.” -Kenneth H. Cooper

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  • “Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor’s desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client’s financial statements.”…

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  • “If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that’s enough for me.” -T-Bone Burnett

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  • “It’s an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.” -Trevor Rabin

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  • “Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.” -John Howard

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  • “I have always had a relationship with clothes.” -Phillip Lim

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  • “The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.” -Cyril Cusack

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  • “Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.” -Roger Andrew Taylor

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  • “I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.” -Ryan Giggs

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  • “There’s nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.” -Max Greenfield

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  • “But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.” -Gil Kane

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  • “There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people.” -Mohammed Morsi

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  • “The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.” -William Kirby

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  • “If I’m in a relationship, I’m 1,000% in it. I love doing things for them and surprising them. And that’s just something I thoroughly enjoy and it gives me a lot of pleasure. I just haven’t found that right girl yet.” -Josh Henderson

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  • “I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.” -Gloria Gaynor

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  • “I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn’t for me.” -Arsenio Hall

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  • “I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I’m either sleeping or at the theater.” -Haley Joel Osment

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  • “And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I’m forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.” -Trish Stratus

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  • “I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.” -Steven Hatfill

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  • “I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don’t know what the alternative would have been.” -Juliet Stevenson

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  • “My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.” -Douglass North

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  • “In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.” -Tom C. Clark

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  • “It’s very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship – whether it’s a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.” -Kathy Valentine

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  • “I personally don’t believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.” -Donald Glover

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  • “My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.” -Deana Carter

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  • “As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It’s no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.” -Erik Qualman

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  • “My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn’t understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.” -Jimmy Chamberlin

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  • “I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it’s hugely different.” -Story Musgrave

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  • “We want to obviously foster a relationship that we’re a partner with states that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does and that we’re practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they’re talking about.” -Margaret Spellings

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  • “Melissa and I have the best working relationship, and we feel that Jack and Jennifer have so much more to do.” -Matthew Ashford

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  • “In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don’t think I would have seen as much change if I’d lived in any other city in the world.” -Shalom Harlow

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  • “My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.” -Joey Lauren Adams

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  • “I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with.…

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  • “In any relationship that comes to an end, there’s never just a baseline reason why. You say, ‘Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.’ Someone says, ‘Why?’ You say, ‘Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, you’ve got to talk to her.’” -Michael Rapaport

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  • “People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.” -Jennifer Connelly

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  • “But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post’s threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.” -Donna Rice

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  • “And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we’re very fortunate.” -Alex Lifeson

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  • “I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.” -Norman McLaren

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  • “You don’t want to be in a relationship with someone who’s scared of you.” -Tila Tequila

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  • “The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I’m sure sometimes I’m the woman.” -Gerard Depardieu

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  • “Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them.” -June Singer

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  • “There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it’s just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that’s important.” -David Nail

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  • “I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.” -Chely Wright

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  • “I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.” -Hunter Tylo

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  • “It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.” -Eknath Easwaran

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  • “The trouble with anyone when they’re unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don’t know what to do about is that they can’t see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn’t there anymore, you have to do something about it.” -Penelope Wilton

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  • “I’m working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.” -Paz de la Huerta

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  • “A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let’s get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.” -Tab Hunter

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  • “I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them.” -Mike McCready

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  • “As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to ‘Edwin Drood,’ you’re going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.” -Rupert Holmes

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  • “It’s like our relationship is always about the other side that isn’t the obvious side.” -Rosario Dawson

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  • “I’m still going to make mistakes, but I don’t have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.” -Scott Stapp

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  • “What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it’s like a coach-player relationship.” -Sean Durkin

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  • “The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It’s a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.” -Zoe Lister-Jones

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  • “We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.” -Uta Hagen

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  • “This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor’s lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren’t old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.” -Poppy Z. Brite

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  • “I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.” -Luke Bryan

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  • “When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I’d had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, ‘It’s time to have a look at yourself.’” -Brendan Coyle

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  • “The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family.” -Mark Goddard

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  • “My work is about life as you and I experience it. You’re either lucky or you’re not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn’t.” -Mike Leigh

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  • “Lotta people don’t realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don’t get with anyone else. After you’re twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it’s different from the people you knew before.” -Joseph Jarman

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  • “There’s no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that’s allocated according to political muscle.” -Peter Brimelow

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  • “I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it’s not likely to happen the way they are going about it.” -Jennifer Beals

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  • “Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he’s moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.” -Frank Carlucci

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  • “I was raised by a single mother and I’ve been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I’ve been surrounded by women.” -Jon Hamm

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  • “I’d had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time – a Lancashire girl. I thought: ‘It’s a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn’t I realize it?’” -David Thewlis

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  • “We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other’s art.” -Julie Taymor

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  • “I’ve had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don’t think I will get married again.” -Cheryl Tiegs

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  • “Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.” -Wesley Morris

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  • “At first we got along real well. Now… it’s pretty much just a professional relationship.” -Jose Carreras

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  • “America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.” -Jenifer Lewis

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  • “There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don’t know.” -Robert Fitzgerald

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  • “The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.” -John Moody

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  • “I’ve been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.” -Jeff Tweedy

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  • “Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.” -Anita Diament

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  • “We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.” -Jones Very

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  • “Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.” -Toby Young

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  • “I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It’s very nurturing. It’s very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school.” -Kyan Douglas

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  • “Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it’s an assault on citizenship.” -Mark Steyn

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  • “We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we’d never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.” -Jon Ronson

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  • “Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists.” -Steve Vai

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  • “There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom.” -Stuart Rose

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  • “Mr. Geithner is an excellent minister. We have a good personal relationship.” -Wolfgang Schauble

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  • “Our institute’s agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.” -Peter L. Berger

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  • “And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain’s condition.” -Juan Goytisolo

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  • “My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that’s how it was in those days.” -Erika Slezak

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  • “I don’t remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.” -David Hyde Pierce

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  • “For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves.” -Anne Heche

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  • “The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.” -Richard G. Scott

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  • “If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you don’t learn that you don’t have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn’t know any different.” -Alyssa Milano

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  • “A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress.” -Richard V. Allen

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  • “It’s developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.” -Richard Donner

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  • “It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis’s relationship could not sustain.” -Meg Ryan

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  • “But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.” -James Baldwin

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  • “Every relationship I’ve been in becomes long-distance because of work. It’s never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.” -Anton Yelchin

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  • “Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind.” -Natalie Goldberg

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  • “I think all television has to be about relationships and I don’t think horror for the sake of it can work unless you’re able to ground it in some kind of relationship.” -Rachael Taylor

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  • “Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can’t help their careers, then they’re not going to be interested.” -David Steinberg

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  • “It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it’s OK.” -Heather Graham

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  • “It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.” -William Devane

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  • “They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That’s the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.” -Michael Tilson Thomas

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  • “And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.” -Karlheinz Stockhausen

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  • “Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.” -John Perry Barlow

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