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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
Charles Horton Cooley
Man
Eyes
Mind
Cowardly
Other
Seem
Share
Judgments
Always
Refined
Brave
Ashamed
Straightforward
Gross
Evasive
Presence
Imagine
Imagining
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret Thatcher
You
Sometimes
Tell
Lies
Deliberate
Evasive
People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it.
Priyanka Chopra
Life
People
Personal Life
About
Because
Am
Personal
Evasive
Keep
Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent fib or series of evasive manoeuvres. Then, I slap myself on the wrist.
Lynn Coady
Myself
Problem
Innocent
Random
Dilemma
Find
Some
Scenarios
Could
Wrist
Writer
Over
Occasionally
Chewing
Where
Then
Evasive
Series
Letter
Slap
Imagining
I've always tried to avoid music being direct therapy, and I've always found there's a power when you write something that can have its own interpretation - although I'm not being intentionally evasive.
KT Tunstall
Music
You
Power
Own
Interpretation
Tried
Direct
Something
Write
Although
Always
Intentionally
Being
Avoid
Therapy
Evasive
Found
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.
Harold Brodkey
Prayer
Memory
Complete
Chapel
Put
Clear
Head
Leaving
Were
End
Ended
Aside
Evasive
Bringing
I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.'
Bo Bice
Me
People
Past
Say
Would
Put
Look
Because
Without
Narrow-Minded
Idol
Yes
Trying
American
Front
American Idol
Evasive
Millions
Career
Millions Of People