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I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound. Terry McMillan

Yourself, People, Voice, Believe, You

The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something. Morrissey

Love, Music, Myself, People, Believe

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it. Evelyn Ashford

Want, Everything, Earn, Anything, Take

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. Robert Mugabe

Feel, Ladder, Top, Going, Backwards

When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories. Erik Larson

Good, Fall, Story, Feel, Comfortable

Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment. David Blunkett

Positive, Hope, Future, Politics, Worth

Americans generally regard themselves as belonging to an exceptional nation. And in terms of living in a religiously tolerant and enormously diverse country, Americans can certainly take some justified pride. Peter L. Bergen

Living, Belonging, Country, Nation, Take

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character. Ralph Thomas Walker

Character, Knowledge, Respect, I Am, Own

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. William Hazlitt

Respect, Heart, Drive, You, Tyranny, Him

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. Jonathan Swift

Proud, Rich, Hunger, Poor, Hungry, Will

When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.' Louis D. Brandeis

Faith, Talent, Genius, Moral, Special

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives. John Lasseter

Great, People, Busy, Me, Believe, Three

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. Josiah Gilbert Holland

Progress, Opinion, Way, Nothing, Foolish

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music. Zubin Mehta

Success, Music, Find, Bright, Hard

It's easy to forget, as a leader, that when employees don't get the wide view, not only does the point of their work escape them, but it can also lead to real frustration. It's hard to feel pride and ownership when you don't understand where things are going. Jason Fried

Work, Leader, Frustration, Employees

I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing. Neil Patrick Harris

Myself, Said, Mean, Different, Little

I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized. Talulah Riley

Me, Loved, Literature, Prejudice, Like

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful. Walter Lang

Problem, Solution, Human, May, Our

While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon. Gregory Maguire

Life, Time, Myself, My Life, Creative

But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.' Ted Strickland

Work, Women, Men, America, Building

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete. Dayron Robles

Man, Responsibility, Athlete, Prepare

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction. Abraham Lincoln

Family, Wealth, Learn, Strange, Boy

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. William Penn

Knowledge, Ignorance, Humility, Clothes

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Petrarch

Peace, Anger, Ambition, Enjoy, Envy, Us

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom, Now, Nothing, Reason, More

This power of democracy is a matter of pride for our country, something which we must always cherish, preserve and further strengthen. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Power, Democracy, Country, Always, Must

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