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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Heart Unhappy Earth Feelings

Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance - these qualities were extremely captivating to me.

Music Me I Am Voice

In retrospect, I do think it's fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.

Mark Zuckerberg

Good People Think Voice

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Family Fear Be Happy Happy

I write about what I know: teenage dating, overly charged sexuality, all the things that make you uncomfortable.

You Dating Know Things

It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host... It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.

Funny Work Business I Am

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

Alanis Morissette

Start Writing Process Intellectual

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

Alanis Morissette

Celebrity Something Just Up

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

Hurt I Can See Painful

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

John Kenneth Galbraith

World Problems Beach Place

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I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Life My Life Never Actress

Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

Life Sad Love Death

I think being an immigrant makes me overly optimistic.

Me Think Immigrant Being

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

Me Dad Mom Matter

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

Flannery O'Connor

Great Losing Better Bad

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

Dead Admire Three Being

Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.

Daniel Kahneman

Best You Friends Sometimes

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

You Long Small Know

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

Man Women Great Wedding

The individual must not be allowed to be overly free, but the country must be entirely free. When the country can exercise freedom, China will have become a mighty and prosperous nation.

Freedom Country Nation Free

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

Money Democracy Think Small

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

Francis Ford Coppola

Life My Life Think Better

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.

Freedom Appreciate Sound America

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

Daniel Radcliffe

Politics White Know Class

Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Nature Strength Women Great

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Laurence Sterne

Health People Enjoy Care

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