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Amy Grant Singer, Songwriter
Lonely

“Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.”

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Amy Hill Actress
Creative

“People who work on soaps all the time understand the formula of how to do it.”

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Amy Hill Actress
Love

“When you're going to spend a couple of weeks with people, you want to be with people that are enjoyable.”

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Amy Miller Author, Activist
Angry

“That's a really common trap that people in small scenes will start to rely on. They'll have all this material joking about that place, and then take a trip to Atlanta or whatever, and be like, "Half my act is gone because I can't talk about how everybody has a bicycle."”

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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
Spiritual

“Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.”

Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
Lonely

“Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver. And one thinks them insincere. Yet I want to believe her. At the same time it does not seem so very important that she should love me. It is not her role. I am so filled with my love of her. And at the same time I feel that I am dying. Our love would be death. The embrace of imaginings.”

Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
Philosophical

“While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.”

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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
Hopeful

“Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.”

Andre Gide Novelist
Philosophical

“Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.”

Andre Gide Novelist
Thoughtful

“Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.”

Andre Gide Novelist
Confident

“You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.”

Andre Reed Football Player
Determined

“Your diet has to be number one. If you don't eat the right things, it doesn't matter who you are. Sometimes those foods treat people differently.”

Andre Reed Football Player
Angry

“A lot of times I go to the gym and I see people and they don't know how to work out. There's no routine or anything like that. I saw a guy who I haven't seen in five years and the guy looks the same as he did five years ago.”

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Andrew Bernstein Economist
Philosophical

“People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.”

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Andrew Bernstein Economist
Motivated

“People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.”

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Andrew Bernstein Economist
Spiritual

“Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.”

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Andrew Cohen Psychologist
Philosophical

“I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.”