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Feelings Quotes

"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."

"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Feelings, Gentleman

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"I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man."

"I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man."

Joseph Smith, Jr., American Clergyman

Feelings, Man, Joseph Smith, Jr.

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"I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here."

"I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here."

Vinny Testaverde, American Football Player

Feelings, Expectations

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"Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before."

"Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before."

Ben Folds, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Now

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"Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it."

"Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it."

Eva Braun, German Celebrity

Feelings, Feeling, Nothing, Now, Today

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"We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts."

"We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts."

Sonia Sotomayor, American Judge

Feelings, Facts, Law

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"A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy."

"A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy."

Luis Barragan, Mexican Architect

Feelings, Feeling, Garden, Joy, Serenity

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"Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff."

"Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff."

Corbin Bernsen, American Actor

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"It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings."

"It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings."

Kurt Cobain, American Musician

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"There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap."

"There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap."

Kevin James, American Comedian

Feelings, Feeling, World

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"I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds."

"I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds."

Marc Wallice, American Actor

Feelings, Feeling

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"Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?"

"Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?"

George Gobel, American Comedian

Feelings, Feeling, World

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"I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man."

"I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man."

Ike Turner, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Man

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"It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes."

"It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes."

Meg White, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling

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"There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage."

"There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage."

Neve Campbell, Canadian Actress

Feelings, Feeling, Sadness

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"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."

"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian Musician

Feelings, Attention, Blame, Praise

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"A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place."

"A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place."

Luigi Pirandello, Italian Playwright

Feelings, Fact, First

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"When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good."

"When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good."

Alain Prost, French Celebrity

Feelings, Feeling, Race

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"We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again."

"We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again."

Ben E. King, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling

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"I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right."

"I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right."

Jacqueline du Pre, English Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Play, Right

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"That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it."

"That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it."

Marian McPartland, English Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Play, Right

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"There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'."

"There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'."

Eminem, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling

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"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."

"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."

Ethel Waters, American Musician

Feelings, HusbFeeling, Help

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"A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones."

"A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones."

William Kent, English Architect

Feelings, Feeling, Garden, World

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"Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings."

"Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings."

Jelly Roll Morton, American Musician

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"I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver."

"I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver."

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American Actor

Feelings, Feeling, Losing

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"There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good."

"There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good."

Shelley Duvall, American Actress

Feelings, Feeling, Nothing

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"I was feeling well enough to eat the pears."

"I was feeling well enough to eat the pears."

Lizzie Andrew Borden, American Celebrity

Feelings, Feeling

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"I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course."

"I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course."

Groucho Marx, American Comedian

Feelings, Feeling, Golf

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"I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face."

"I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face."

Richard Rogers, British Architect

Feelings, Feeling, Old

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"I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on."

"I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on."

Brenda Lee, American Musician

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"When you read a script, you get a feeling from it."

"When you read a script, you get a feeling from it."

Sasha Alexander, American Actress

Feelings, Feeling

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"My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring."

"My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring."

Geoffrey Fisher, British Clergyman

Feelings, Holidays, Sight

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"So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air."

"So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air."

Pharrell Williams, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Painting

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"I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not."

"I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not."

Brooke Shields, American Actress

Feelings, Control, Hope, Healing

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"The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for."

"The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for."

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

Feelings, Feeling, Names

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"Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard."

"Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard."

Benjamin Jowett, English Theologian

Feelings, Feeling, Taste

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"I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high."

"I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high."

Burt Bacharach, American Composer

Feelings, Feeling

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"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."

"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."

Lionel Hampton, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Now

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"We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived."

"We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived."

Tracy Chapman, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Thinking

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"In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party."

"In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party."

Franz Boas, American Scientist

Feelings, Feeling, France, Party, Years

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"We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do."

"We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do."

Linda Lavin, American Actress

Feelings, Feeling, Night

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"Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character."

"Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character."

Andrew Coyle Bradley, American Judge

Feelings, Idea, Character, Conformity

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"I've suffered too much to hide my feelings."

"I've suffered too much to hide my feelings."

Isabelle Adjani, French Actress

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"If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling."

"If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling."

Geezer Butler, English Musician

Feelings, Feeling

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"You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot."

"You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot."

Victoria Pratt, Canadian Actress

Feelings, Relationships, Vulnerability

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"Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man."

"Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man."

Ralph Steadman, British Cartoonist

Feelings, Feeling, Help, Man

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"Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link."

"Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link."

Tea Leoni, American Actress

Feelings, Idea, Leading, Want

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"I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom."

"I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom."

Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian Scientist

Feelings, Feeling, Freedom, Help, Responsibility

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"I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon."

"I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon."

Corey Haim, Canadian Actor

Feelings, Habit, Thoughts, Learning

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