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The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
– Dario Argento
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
– Walter Benjamin
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The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.
– Curt Schilling
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The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.
– Henry Louis Gates
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The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'
– Roger Goodell
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The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.
– Eric Alterman
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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
– William Hazlitt
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The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'
– Paul Theroux
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The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.
– Katy Perry
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The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.
– Peter Singer
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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
– Christopher Lasch
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
– James Madison
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The great hope of society is in individual character.
– William Ellery Channing
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The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.
– Brooke Shields
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The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.
– Jonathan Kozol
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
– David Attenborough
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
– John Buchan
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
– Wendell Berry
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
– Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.
– Jello Biafra
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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
– Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
– Kevin James
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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
– Richard Russo
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
– Salman Khan
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
– Dan Abrams
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So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
– Nicolaus Copernicus
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So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.
– Jan Brewer
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So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.
– Jennifer Granholm
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See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
– Charles Barkley
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Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.
– Spike Lee
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
– Octavia Butler
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Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
– Corazon Aquino
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Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.
– Diablo Cody
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President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.
– Lindsey Graham
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
– Ambrose Bierce
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Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.
– Jerry Costello
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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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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
– Elizabeth Bowen
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People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.
– David Brudnoy
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People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.
– Michelle Bachelet
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
– Edmund Burke
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People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.
– Marcy Kaptur
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People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.
– Tyra Banks
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Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.
– Rick Perry
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One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.
– James Lovelock
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One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
– Jim Carrey
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One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms.
– Katy Perry
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One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.
– Hugh Laurie
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One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
– Hedy Lamarr
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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
– Gustave Flaubert
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
– Thomas Jefferson
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On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.
– Kathryn Bigelow
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On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.
– James Wolcott
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Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.
– Nick Stahl
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Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
– Jim Valvano
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
– Nancy Reagan
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Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
– William Wordsworth
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No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
– George Chakiris
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No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.
– Josh Radnor
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Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age.
– Carol Vorderman
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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
– Thomas Jefferson
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My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
– Pierre Corneille
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My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.
– Marco Rubio
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
– Annie Leibovitz
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My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.
– George Papandreou
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My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.
– Rick Perry
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My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
– Christian Bale
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
– Tahar Ben Jelloun
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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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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
– Andrew Young
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My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
– Alex Haley
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My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'
– Demetri Martin
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My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
– James Otis
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My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.
– Rick Perry
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Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
– John le Carre
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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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Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.
– Henry A. Wallace
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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
– George Santayana
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
– Maya Angelou
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
– Gustave Flaubert
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
– Ambrose Bierce
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Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!
– Andy Cohen
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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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Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
– Michelle Pfeiffer
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Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.
– Jeanne Moreau
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
– Barbara Bush
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Let's hope you feel better now.
– Jack Kevorkian
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Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.
– Simon Mainwaring
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Keep hope alive!
– Jesse Jackson
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Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
– Arnold Bennett
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Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.
– Channing Tatum
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Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.
– Jake Roberts
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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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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.
– Diablo Cody
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It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.
– Ricky Skaggs
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It's just a part of our nature to hope.
– Elizabeth Edwards
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It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.
– Eric Bana
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It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.
– Marat Safin
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It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.
– Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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