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"You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere."
"I don't trust him. We're friends."
"Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference."
"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."
"A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative."
"There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation."
"Meanwhile, the minute you put on the dotted line your Sam Hancock - and before a notary - you'll not only get the negative but Elsie makes a wonderful stuffed cabbage which we'll include gratis a few portions but return the jars please."
"There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved."
"He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought."
"When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am."
"For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life."
"Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing."
"I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative."
"Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure."
"It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider."
"The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing."
"Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them."
"I don't think nostalgia has to be negative."
"People who don't know me are so negative about me. When they finally meet me, they change that negative into a positive."
"I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life."
