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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'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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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 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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language."

"When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language."

James Earl Jones, American Actor

Feelings, Thoughts, Ability, Drama

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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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"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 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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"You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood."

"You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood."

Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Celebrity

Feelings, Winning, Race, Will

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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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"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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"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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"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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"I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again."

"I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again."

Richard H. Davis, American Writer

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"And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously."

"And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously."

Rainer W. Fassbinder, German Filmmaker

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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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"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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"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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"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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"When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings."

"When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

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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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"I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell."

"I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell."

Richard D. James, English Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Hair, School

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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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"I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural."

"I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural."

Tony Visconti, American Musician

Feelings, Supernatural

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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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"It's hard for me to put my feelings into words."

"It's hard for me to put my feelings into words."

Joaquin Phoenix, American Actor

Feelings, Words

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"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."

"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."

Claude Debussy, French Composer

Feelings, Feeling

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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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"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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"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 was a master at keeping my feelings in."

"I was a master at keeping my feelings in."

Mark David Chapman, American Criminal

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"Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did."

"Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did."

Ben E. King, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Kids, Today

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"Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings."

"Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings."

Paris Hilton, American Celebrity

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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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