Bette Davis
Actress
"It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people."
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Henry James
Author
"And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved."
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"Are you becoming what you've always hated?"
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"To succeed in life, you must have the courage to be hated."
Eminem
Rapper, songwriter, record producer
"Have you ever been hated, or discriminated against I have, I’ve been protested and demonstrated against."
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"I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier."
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"I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since."
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"When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them."
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"I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did."
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"I would rather be loved by millions and hated by the same number rather than moderately liked by everyone."
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"So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment."
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"What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it."
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"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."
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"How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me."
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"I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love."
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"When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most."
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"To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved."
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"I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied"
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"Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole."
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"I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore."
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"I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that."
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"It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated."
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"He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor."
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"It's wonderful to be hated by idiots."
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"Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love."
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