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Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.
Sophia Bush

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Alcaeus

Pain, Thinking, Sense

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
Lech Walesa

Freedom, Food, Step

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
Jesse Jackson

Woman, Others, Greater

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.
Harvey Keitel

Life, Great, Struggle

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.
Mary Lou Retton

Good, Lost, Give

My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do before the screenplay to 'Lincoln.'
Tony Kushner

Hard, Before, While

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
Samuel Smiles

Life, Nature, Experience

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
Duke of Wellington

Greatest, Lost, Battle

The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.
Anthony Price

Hell, Light, Devil

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.
Eric Alterman

True, Ignore, Before

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
Daniel Boone

Looking, Round, Delight

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
Empedocles

Happy, Thoughts, Dark

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
Sydney Smith

Good, Ready, Virtue

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
Paul Hawken

True, Everything, Through

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.
Renee Fleming

Great, Romantic, Live

I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.
Jonah Hill

Time, School, Learned

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.
Mayim Bialik

Artist, Actor, Performer

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
Marilyn Hacker

Important, Lost, Both

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.
John Bright

Men, Government, House

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
Stephen Gardiner

Today, Plans, Following

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
Ella Maillart

Life, Knowledge, Big

I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds.
Gisele Bundchen

Two, Before, Until

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
Brooke Shields

Success, Work, Great

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.
Judy Holliday

Work, Money, Great

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
Horatio Nelson

There is much more good gained from having a fully functioning financial market than there ever is not having that.
John Key

Good, Financial, Market

Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.
Zhang Ziyi

Love, Work, Time

When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
J. William Fulbright

May, Law, Others

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.
Mike Singletary

Since, Coaches, Nfl

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