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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth
Knowledge
Truth Is
Lover
Waters
Reluctant
Shallow
Dirty
Step
People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.
Paulo Coelho
You
People
Internet
About
More
Reluctant
Open
Talk
Go
Private
Private Lives
Very
Then
Much
Lives
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
Reinhold Niebuhr
War
Democracy
Peace
Slow
Once
Indeed
Embarked
Martial
Rather
Reluctant
Make
Venture
Equally
Than
Tolerable
Vindictive
Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.
Andrew Stanton
Me
People
Guy
Reluctant
Like
Know
Most
Very
Pixar
Sequels
Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
Berry Gordy
Music
People
Black
White
Our
Alienate
Our Music
All People
About
Reluctant
Motown
Green
Blue
Anyone
Cops
This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
Bob Graham
War
Intelligence
September
President
Has-Been
Reluctant
No-One
Clear
Leading
Nobody
Been
Iraq
Up
Accountable
Anybody
Hold
After
Flaws
Held
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.
Brian Eno
About
Reluctant
Suppose
Particularly
Sort
Am
Any
Being
Want
Star
Portrayed
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
Brian Eno
Music
Time
Recording
Think
Changed
Everything
Furniture
Diminish
Composers
About
Seemed
Reluctant
Could
Part
Idea
Prospect
Importance
Because
Felt
Being
Place
Them
Meant
Many
Start
With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
Brian Ferneyhough
You
Achievement
Respect
Doubt
Respective
Correct
No Doubt
See
Archetypes
Reluctant
Individual
French
Although
Am
Reduced
Traditions
German
For working with non-professional actors, you have to have this particular desire to work with people who are reluctant to play in a movie. I like this relationship. I'm like a recruiter, an employment agency giving someone employment.
Bruno Dumont
Work
Relationship
You
People
Giving
Someone
Reluctant
Particular
Like
Employment
Movie
Agency
Working
Who
Actor
Play
Desire
I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.
Cecily von Ziegesar
Character
School
Gossip
College
Girl
Worlds
Else
Books
City
Brown
Reluctant
Feel
New
Like
Sort
Yale
Because
Gossip Girl
Go
Off
York
Just
Just As Much
New York
New York City
Anymore
Anyone
Anyone Else
Them
Much
Really
Separate
Show
NYU
Away
It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.
Charles Williams
God
Men
Easier
Willing
Reluctant
Than
Forgive
Forgiven
Often
Fatal
Veterans are generally reluctant to seek mental health care.
Chuck Norris
Health
Mental Health
Veterans
Care
Seek
Mental
Reluctant
Generally
Health Care
Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there.
Chuck Schumer
Live
Believe
State
Unlike
Solution
Determined
Reluctant
Pushed
Come
Parties
Majority
Conclusion
Israel
Still
Israelis
Very
Get
Really
Who
Palestinians
Need
At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences.
Cynthia Kadohata
Time
Me
Book
Writing
Father
Few
Flower
Some
About
My Friend
Touch
Reluctant
Had
Put
Knew
Like
Talk
Naomi
She
WWII
Were
Been
Friend
Five
Camps
Quite
Experiences
Them
Elderly
Farmers
Who
Four
As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.
Dan Shechtman
You
Innovation
Out
Tell
Reluctant
Students
Step
Nobody
Know
Because
Korean
Answers
Line
Questions
Hands
Goes
Want
As Far As
Far
Ask
Raises
We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.
Dannel Malloy
School
Country
Differences
Some
Born
Reluctant
Somewhat
Cultural
Hispanics
Off
American
Send
Children
Central
Found
Early
The reluctant hero is always fun to play.
David Giuntoli
Hero
Reluctant
Always
Fun
Play
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.
David Whyte
Face
Society
Definition
Reluctant
Poetry
Head-On
Mainstream
Qualities
Just
Dynamics
Interesting
Radar
Works
Necessity
Below
Phenomenon
I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
Davy Jones
You
Interviews
Say
Reluctant
Misleading
Because
How
Newspaper
Interpret
For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.
Debi Mazar
Life
Fashion
Me
Personal Life
Nice
Entertainer
About
Reluctant
Talk
Celebrity
Model
Personal
Shoots
Want
Process
Publicist
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
Deborah Harkness
Science
Strange
People
Writing
Thought
Research
Intriguing
Vampire
Kinds
Pretty
Magic
About
More
Reluctant
Studied
Soon
Witch
Became
Were
Same
Interested
Century
Novel
Things
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave.
Diablo Cody
Few
Saw
Months
Pleasure
Visiting
Would
Would-Be
Seeing
Reluctant
Fed
Had
Understood
Leave
Anyone
Estate
After
Mansion
Grapes
Even
Why
Actually
Playboy
Monkeys
My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and there was a lot of loss that came with that, so my parents were reluctant to talk about those things. So I had, by and large, an American childhood.
Dinaw Mengestu
Time
Political
Parents
Those
Circumstances
About
Reluctant
Never
Had
Talk
Because
Came
Were
Loss
Lot
Left
Upheaval
American
Childhood
Which
Much
Ethiopia
Large
Largely
Things
I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not lie to its people.
Eric Kandel
Government
Lie
People
Thought
States
Critical
Reluctant
Could
Wrong
Because
United
United States
I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'
Evangeline Lilly
Lost
Beginning
Bit
Reluctant
Since
Been
Actress
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