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).

  • “Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I’m saying it’s already been done because I lived it.” -Gary Vaynerchuk

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  • “Every woman I’ve had a relationship with has found this maddening the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I’m at home, I clam up and won’t discuss anything intimate or personal.” -Jarvis Cocker

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  • “My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.” -Chris Hemsworth

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  • “I’m not one of these guys who’s constantly in a relationship, not at all.” -Robert Pattinson

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  • “Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.” -Seamus Heaney

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  • “But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it’s the writer or the spy.” -John le Carre

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  • “I am a relationship girl. That’s kind of just how I’m made… When you’re in my life, it’s actually very contained.” -Charlize Theron

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  • “My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.” -Kyle Chandler

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  • “So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there’s a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.” -Talib Kweli

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  • “I grew up very religious, and I don’t have a great relationship with religion.” -Brad Pitt

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  • “This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. I don’t accept that he had to completely desecrate my character.” -Monica Lewinsky

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  • “With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.” -Joaquin Phoenix

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  • “Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.” -Elia Kazan

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  • “There’s such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you’re both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.” -Florence Welch

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  • “In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, ‘Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.’” -Anna Chlumsky

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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 think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.” -Darrell Hammond

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  • “The Russians are turning east to the Chinese – to the Europeans’ surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.” -Daniel Yergin

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  • “Sex is… perfectly natural. It’s something that’s pleasurable. It’s enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don’t we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?” -Sue Johanson

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  • “I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn’t happen.” -Kevin Costner

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  • “I don’t think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It’s essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.” -Margaret Atwood

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  • “A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.” -Alexander Haig

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  • “Ninety percent of the students take the ‘preferred lender.’ Why? Because that’s the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.” -Andrew Cuomo

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  • “The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.” -Kevin Rudd

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  • “I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn’t really about loving cars. It’s sort of about needing them.” -Matthew Barney

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  • “We have peace with Israel. We’re actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, ‘Why are we having this relationship when it’s not benefiting anybody?’ Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.” -King Abdullah II

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  • “The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.” -Anthony Kiedis

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  • “My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won’t complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.” -Jane Fonda

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  • “Now I’m a wife and a mother of two. It’s a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that’s what it’s like to be together for so long and go through what we’ve been through. I can’t really have that relationship with them anymore.” -Gwen Stefani

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  • “Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.” -Jeffrey Kluger

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  • “For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.”…

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  • “I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.” -Elisha Cuthbert

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  • “You know, we’re each the hero of our own story and we perceive what’s going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, ‘Well, this is my story, and I’m the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.’” -Michael Sheen

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  • “I think ‘Tattoo”s a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it’s about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you – be they a friend, a family member or someone you’re in a relationship with.” -Jordin Sparks

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  • “If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I’m a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.” -Katherine Jenkins

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  • “I’m so single. It’s funny. I’m usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it’s good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.” -Brittany Snow

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  • “I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global…

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  • “I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.” -Elton John

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  • “Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.” -Harold S. Geneen

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  • “I’m so lucky that I have a great relationship.” -Julianne Hough

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  • “The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I’d be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.” -Vin Diesel

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  • “The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.” -Pearl S. Buck

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  • “It’s a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there’s an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.” -Kate Beckinsale

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  • “A lot of times, women don’t get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they’re not really dealing well.” -Morris Chestnut

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  • “There’s an entry point to any relationship.” -will.i.am

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  • “I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that’s a normal thing to do, but it’s so much harder when it’s done publicly.” -Courteney Cox

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  • “All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don’t indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.” -Giada De Laurentiis

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  • “We’ve been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney – with tax advantages and strategic partners – that we just weren’t able to do.” -Harvey Weinstein

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  • “I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.” -Luigi Pirandello

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  • “My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don’t want to put myself in the position where I’m in a monogamous relationship right now. I’m not dating just one person. ‘Sex and the City’ changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.” -Lindsay…

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  • “But I think there’s something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I’m very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.” -Andy Serkis

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  • “The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.” -Theresa May

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  • “There’s a lot about the character. It doesn’t always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.” -Salma Hayek

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  • “The establishment wonders why we can’t get more of the black vote. It’s because it’s not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don’t think alike. Most black people just vote alike.” -J. C. Watts

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  • “I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn’t exploit our relationship.” -Laura Linney

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  • “The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of – it’s just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.” -Benjamin Netanyahu

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  • “I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.” -Colin Firth

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  • “I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I’m not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.” -Corin Nemec

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  • “We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.” -Edward T. Hall

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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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  • “What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they’re doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, ‘I care about you. We can do this together.’” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial… whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.” -Edward Albert

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  • “Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood – all those things feel really true to me.” -Jason Reitman

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  • “Film’s hard when you don’t have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.” -Philip Seymour Hoffman

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  • “The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned.” -Francois Hollande

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  • “In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?” -Sarah Jessica Parker

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  • “The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.” -Jesse Jackson

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  • “Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.” -Ellie Goulding

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  • “Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I’ve been surprised at how much I’ve been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that’s true.” -Mindy Kaling

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  • “Mine is just a simple old human story – of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.” -Elizabeth Gilbert

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  • “Which is, I’m an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.” -Garry Shandling

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  • “Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things.” -Jonathan Safran Foer

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  • “Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.” -Igor Stravinsky

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  • “Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship – and not as ends in themselves.” -Francis Schaeffer

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  • “I’ve always been the long-term relationship, go-home-and-meet-mom girl.” -Sophia Bush

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  • “I like to write with people I have a relationship with otherwise it’s kind of scary, and you hold back because you don’t want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.” -Miranda Lambert

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  • “There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.” -Vera Wang

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  • “The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.” -John Frusciante

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  • “We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.” -George H. W. Bush

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  • “Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that’s only expedited by ‘Out of sight, out of mind.’ But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It’s a high-class problem, but…

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  • “Look, you’ve got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.” -Edward Norton

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  • “The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.” -Manny Pacquiao

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  • “For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.” -Nick Rahall

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  • “The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it’s not without doubt but in spite of doubt.” -Rollo May

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  • “For me, I’m not a jealous person. That’s just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.” -Fergie

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  • “What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.” -William Glasser

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  • “Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.” -Benjamin Carson

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  • “I’ve only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “I’m so happy to be in a committed relationship.” -Adam Lambert

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  • “The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what’s it all about.” -David Attenborough

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  • “There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn’t feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.” -Dionne Warwick

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  • “I think if you’re in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, monogamy is something that should exist.” -Jennifer Lopez

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  • “The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.” -John Boehner

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  • “You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.” -Tammy Faye Bakker

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  • “My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.” -Usain Bolt

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  • “The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender because this kiss already has within it that surrender.” -Emil Ludwig

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  • “Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone, but it’s making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.” -Vanessa Paradis

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  • “When you’re in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.” -Erykah Badu

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  • “I can’t cultivate a relationship with my child if it’s between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, ‘This is not going to work.’ It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.” -Katherine Heigl

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  • “In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.” -Tony Blair

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  • “Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.” -Adam Sandler

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  • “Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.” -Nicole Kidman

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  • “I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.” -Norah Jones

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  • “Fame does lead to money, which I don’t have a close relationship with. I’m the kind of guy who never sees the money – it all goes somewhere else. I don’t understand it, I don’t like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.” -David…

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  • “North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.” -Michael Kors

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  • “Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt ‘safe’ there.” -Robert Cormier

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  • “I’m so happy now. I love that I’m in a relationship right now… I want a life… The past five years or so I’ve found my groove and my balance.” -Kelly Clarkson

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  • “I’m a real relationship person – contrary to public perception. I’m either in one or I’m not.” -Sienna Miller

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  • “Individual psychotherapy – that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship – requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.” -Thomas…

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  • “Pop stardom is not very compelling. I’m much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there’s no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There’s no, like, ‘I’ll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.’” -Ani DiFranco

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  • “When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.” -Jeanne Moreau

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  • “Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.” -Ron Fournier

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  • “Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.” -Godfrey Reggio

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  • “Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle’s Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.” -Tony Campolo

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  • “In finding love, I think it’s important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it’s important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.” -Kina Grannis

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  • “I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.” -Keanu Reeves

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  • “The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.” -Leighton Meester

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  • “My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents… They treated us like adults.” -Henry Louis Gates

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  • “I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.” -Catherine Deneuve

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  • “I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn’t possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There’s a relationship to government about knights.” -Harold Pinter

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  • “It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.” -Uma Thurman

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  • “We’re getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.” -Lenny Kravitz

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  • “I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.” -Alan Rickman

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  • “The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.” -David Ogilvy

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  • “The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.” -Herbert Spencer

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  • “Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job – this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce – that’s when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a…

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  • “The film depends on the audience’s belief in this relationship.” -Ralph Fiennes

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  • “There’s the theory that nudity doesn’t really make something sexy the characters and their relationship make it sexy.” -Tim Robbins

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  • “It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain – and others – more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.” -David Cameron

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  • “There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.” -Ed Koch

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  • “The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress’s power in the future.” -John Podhoretz

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  • “A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you’re overwhelmed by his talent. He’s so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.” -Dee Dee Myers

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  • “I think I have a strange relationship with time. I’m not really aware of that time passing. I don’t feel that I’m wasteful with time. But I’m not aware of it passing.” -Daniel Day-Lewis

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  • “I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.” -Josh McDowell

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  • “And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.” -Ricky Williams

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  • “Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.” -Brigitte Bardot

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  • “I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn’t immediately affect her.” -John Cleese

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  • “I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it’s not all for naught, and it’s meaningful, because it makes you who you are.” -Rashida Jones

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  • “I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren’t there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?”…

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  • “The relationships that people have – that are sexual, psychological, emotional – these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.” -Madalyn Murray O’Hair

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  • “I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.” -Stephen Fry

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  • “When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter’s from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.” -Terri Apter

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  • “I’ve never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It’s been a much slower process for me each time I’ve gone into a relationship.” -Leonardo DiCaprio

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  • “Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time – a style – and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.” -Jim Henson

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  • “I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?” -Shailene Woodley

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  • “Don’t throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they’re completely in love with me.” -Ashley Greene

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  • “I’ve always believed in people’s capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I’m not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.” -Anne Hathaway

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  • “The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.” -Jessica Savitch

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  • “When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature – this very unique to Japan.” -Tadao Ando

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  • “There’s only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.” -Shia LaBeouf

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  • “When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who’s not their partner. It’s really kind of gross.” -Megan Fox

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  • “A lot of what I’m obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.” -Martin Scorsese

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  • “I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there’s a different relationship with each of them.” -Hugh Jackman

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  • “Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?” -John Mayer

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  • “The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.” -Adlai E. Stevenson

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  • “When I play live, it’s a conversation that we’re all having with the song, and the audience… their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.” -Tori Amos

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  • “It’s a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.” -Rick Derringer

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  • “I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn’t care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don’t like people. It’s not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.” -Rachel Weisz

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  • “I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don’t have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.” -Bjork

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  • “The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being’s functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.” -Havelock Ellis

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  • “I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.” -Dan Quayle

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  • “I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.” -Cicely Tyson

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  • “Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.” -Larry David

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  • “And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with him that I want to give him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity. And then right after I give him the honor and glory, I always try to give my teammates the honor and glory. And that’s how it…

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  • “When I’m working, I’m very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I’ve had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.” -Jeff Bridges

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  • “No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.” -May Sarton

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  • “Back then I didn’t think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn’t the life for me!” -Sylvia Kristel

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  • “I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.” -Daniel Radcliffe

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  • “What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.” -Rick Warren

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  • “The test of one’s behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.” -Alfred Adler

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  • “You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.” -Connie Sellecca

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  • “I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.” -Miley Cyrus

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  • “I don’t have a bad relationship. I’m 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is… you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that’s a life.” -Jean Claude Van Damme

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  • “I don’t care what people say about my relationship I don’t care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs I have a sold-out tour. I’m getting incredible feedback from my music.” -Katy Perry

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  • “OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn’t be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.” -Jennifer Aniston

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  • “You’ve got to be ready to be in a great relationship.” -Billy Corgan

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  • “The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.” -Milton Glaser

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  • “Opposites may attract, but I wouldn’t put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.” -Suze Orman

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  • “It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.” -Charles R. Swindoll

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  • “In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.” -Wangari Maathai

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