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I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt. Lionel Shriver

Cruelty Sympathy Obese Buckets Contempt Subject Often Ridicule

Neymar doesn't need to act - he's an excellent player, and he has everything a high-level player needs. He's one of the top five players in the world; why does he need to act? It doesn't bring him sympathy, and it's not good for him. Lothar Matthaus

Good Needs World Sympathy Everything Top Excellent He Him Does Five Act Why Player Bring Players Need

Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it. Maajid Nawaz

Acceptance Cause Challenge Tough Society Increased Sympathy Muslims Absence Makes Understand Integration Lack Harder British

The more sympathy you give, the less you need. Malcolm Forbes

You Sympathy Give More Less Need

Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life. Marie Curie

Life Me Simple Research Sympathy Dream See Entirely Habit Student Share He Soon Sincere Pierre Scientific Caught Scientific Research Came His Existence Asked Speaking Consecrated

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy. Mariella Frostrup

Think Baby Sympathy Having Having A Baby Disaster Any Your Career

There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that. Michael Ealy

Beautiful Ambition Sympathy About Someone Something Knows Understand Very Times Get Want Frustrating Little Who Compelling

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. Oscar Wilde

World Trouble Sympathy Would Would-Be Less

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in. Patty Jenkins

Life Lie Sympathy Circumstances Someone Question Won Any Interested Based

I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl. Paul Haggis

Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general degradation of the quality of life, and we are not going to stop pointing it out, because we speak for many other groups as well. Philip Pullman

Life Quality Speak Other Sympathy Out Degradation Case General More Pointing Particular Well Quality Of Life Because Than Authors Going Stop Special Many Groups Deserving

Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he remains a pasty, earnest bore. Richard Corliss

Bad Luck Fans Care Luck Sympathy Earnest Valor Hunger Hunger Games Run Bad Find Bore About Remains Points He Attractive Him Does His Up Gets Anyone Ron Games Series

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. Richard M. Nixon

Mathematics Sympathy Philosophy Direct Learn Inference Intercourse Deduction Application

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading. Rick Riordan

In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine. Robert Dallek

Son First Revolution Sympathy Thomas Thomas Jefferson Presidential Would Indian Outset Put French French Revolution Because Contest Opponents His Candidate Warned Who Jefferson Expressed

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age. Robert Gottlieb

Life Work Kindness Hard Work Man Age World Thought Hypocrisy Cruelty Greed Sanctity Sympathy Virtues Knew His Domestic Domestic Life Dickens Stood Probity Victorian Hard Large Exposed Even Novels Whom Violence

I wasn't embarrassed that I'd had a stroke, but I just didn't want people to think I was milking it or looking for sympathy. It happened, and I dealt with it. Afterwards, I tried to do what I could for other people who had strokes, speaking at hospitals that treated stroke victims. Rod Laver

As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go there and it doesn't really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them. Rory Stewart

Best You Strange Culture People World Country Think Assume Sympathy Everybody Everybody Else Else Envies Feel Generosity Towards Instinctively Like Look Because Go Very Refreshing Afghans Place Which Them Really Based

In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys. Ryuichi Sakamoto

God Culture Mountains Sympathy Trees Our Everywhere Kitty Toys Robots Rocks Japanese Japanese Culture Hello Even Belief

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists. Steven Erikson

Art Fear Made Self-Defense Gesture Sympathy Plenty Risk Small Small Amounts Vulnerable Intensely Artists Mechanisms Among Amount

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