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The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying to be pretty!' Inherent in that is a lot of misogyny, I think, because the implication is, 'You must work hard to achieve a feminine ideal for which society has nothing but contempt.' Rae Carson

Work Good You Work Hard Achieve Nothing Think Society Must Pretty Ideal Implication Like Look Message Contempt Because Always Feminine Lot Trying Which Inherent Hard

We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet. Raja Krishnamoorthi

Politics Internet Increasingly Our Airwaves Must Contempt Dominate Meanness Reject

Sometimes I think that Rush Limbaugh is the dumbest man in America. This happens whenever I take him at face value and forget that he is basically an entertainer with contempt for his audience. He will tell them anything. Richard Cohen

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In Israel's short history, army commanders and the heads of the intelligence agencies have often advocated the use of force and in many cases showed contempt for the law and human rights. Political leaders have typically been more measured. Ronen Bergman

History Rights Army Intelligence Law Political Human Rights Cases More Leaders Heads Contempt Force Israel Been Political Leaders Intelligence Agencies Often Human Short Agencies Use Measured Many

My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social condition, so that the state is not required to pay for long-term residential care. Calling it what it is - brain damage - is too expensive. Rose George

Sometimes Mother Care Hatred Husband Pay Too State Long-Term Dementia Look Contempt Calling Condition Brain Brain Damage Expensive Loving Social Required Residential Her Watched Damage

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. Roy Hattersley

Acceptance Evil Contempt Familiarity Breeds

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. Samuel Johnson

Complaint More Excite Contempt Than Pity Fortune Usual

I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase. Sloan Wilson

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My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. Steven Pinker

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. Thomas Carlyle

Love Heart Lie Humor Laughter More Head True Smiles Contempt Still Issues Springs Than Essence Which Far Deeper

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it. William Gibson

You Science Whatever Beneath Those Could Bother Write Particularly Contempt Because Science Fiction Era Where Fiction Wanted McCarthy Places

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. William Hazlitt

Nature Respect Heart Language Else Poetry He Contempt Himself Itself Anything Anything Else Cannot Holds Which Much Who Universal Universal Language

Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel. Zadie Smith

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans. These performances were based in contempt and gave people an opportunity to act out their prejudices. Wayne Messam

People Opportunity Long Parents Mimic Gave Out Fact Performance Contempt Were Mock American African African Americans In Fact Wore Prejudices Act Shows Actor Based Lives

When I was four I joined a group of girls who were talking about their party dresses. I thought they were imagining, so I imagined a fantastic pink velvet dress with lots of jewels. But they were simply describing what they actually wore, and they had utter contempt for my obvious fiction. After that, I never joined a group again. Martha Nussbaum

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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false. Nance O'Neil

Art Woman Thought Must Fine Something Betrays Perceptions Emotional True She Contempt Make False Any Them Whose Actress

President Obama has contempt for real money. P. J. O'Rourke

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Only the contemptible fear contempt. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fear Only Contempt Contemptible

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