939 private quotes tagged hope

“You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.” — Diablo Cody

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“You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.” — Alicia Silverstone

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“Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.” — Ivo Andric

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“Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.” — Bob Riley

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“It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.” — Jonathan Carroll

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“Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.” — Bono

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“I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.” — Howard Mumford Jones

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“My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.” — Sonia Sotomayor

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“It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.” — Benazir Bhutto

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“And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.” — George Carey

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“Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.” — Carter Burwell

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“Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.” — George Weinberg

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“Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.” — Maurice Sendak

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“Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.” — Paul Wellstone

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“It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.” — John Clayton

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“The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.” — Billy Corgan

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“Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.” — Anne Lamott

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“I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.” — David Attenborough

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“A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.” — Grandma Moses

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“I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.” — Arthur Miller

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“I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.” — Harlan Coben

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“I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.” — Tracey Ullman

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