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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe / Actress
Inspiring
Love
Marriage
Relationship
Lovers
Betraying
Chiefly
Husbands
Wives
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A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence Durrell / Novelist
Love
Men
Letters
Love Best Man
Love Best Always
Betraying
Love Letters
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You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.
Charles Krauthammer / Columnist
Honestly
Whole
Life Your Think
Betraying
Say
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A big shop in Manhattan would feel like we were betraying our roots. And we're not just going to open a bunch of stores.
James Jebbia /
Bunch
Manhattan
Roots
Stores
Betraying
Shop
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Walter Benjamin / Literary Critic
Art
Criticism
Fashion
Ideas
Inadequate
Slogans
Betraying
Coin
Critic
Nutshell
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God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't.
Diego Maradona / Soccer Player
God Me Feel
Betraying
God Walk Me
Pitch
Cross
Walk
Sign
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I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.
John Robinson / Author
Important
Leaving
Trying
Unspoken
Betraying
Family Important More
Emotions
Explain
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I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.
Richard Dawkins / Ethologist
Honesty
Islam
Western
Love Truth Me
Betraying
Forces
Intelligentsia
Liberal
Notice
Western Countries
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I have grown to understand that no matter where we come from, human beings, at heart, are the same. Defining ourselves based on race, religion, and ethnicity is like betraying that.
Shenaz Treasury /
Religion
Defining
Ethnicity
Human Beings
Race
Based
Beings
Betraying
Grown
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It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.
Chaz Bono / Writer
Little Kid
Me Body Woman
Betraying
Horrifying
Literally
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When I was a punk teenager, I rebelled because lots of people in Iceland think that foreigners are evil and that if you don't wear woolen hats and eat sheep, you're betraying your heritage.
Bjork / Singer-Songwriter
Evil
Foreigners
Hats
Heritage
Iceland
Punk
Teenager
Eat
Lots
Betraying
Wear
Rebelled
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I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.
Nicole Kidman / Actress
Daughter
Sister
Children
Feels
Mother
Real
Real Person
World
Most
Person
Like
World Me Children
Myself World Me
Thing
Me
Myself Me Children
Myself
Betraying
Woman
Discuss
Wrong
Operating
Private
Private Thing
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Doing interviews about my films really bothers me sometimes, because I have to speak directly and clearly about things I've intended to keep ambiguous, and in a way, I feel like I'm betraying my film.
Asghar Farhadi / Film Director
Ambiguous
Me Keep Feel
Betraying
Bothers
Me Sometimes Way
Directly
Intended
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There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo.
Billy Dee Williams / Actor
Daughter
Children
Elementary School
Misunderstanding
School
Solo
Always Character Me
Accuse
Betraying
Character Always Me
Elementary
Little Children
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I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.
Donald Cargill /
Blood
Christ
Liberty
Quiet
Redeemed
Betraying
Reward
Some Men
Traitors
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One of the casualties of Israel becoming an increasingly partisan issue has been American Jews themselves, who vote overwhelmingly Democratic and who see Israel's rightward turn as betraying fundamental liberal values.
Bari Weiss /
Casualties
Betraying
Increasingly
Jews
Liberal
Partisan
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Early on, I played a Chinese delivery person, and even that, which was very innocuous, felt like I was somehow betraying myself. I felt very self-conscious on set doing that role, with a crew that was almost entirely white.
John Cho / Actor
Chinese
Crew
Delivery
Felt
Self Conscious
White
Almost
Played
Betraying
Set
Early
Entirely
Role
Somehow
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It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those who accepted the terms of battle? War is a sacrificial system that creates its own justification.
Stanley Hauerwas / Theologian
Accepted
Battle
Justification
Sacrifice
Betraying
Casualty
Creates
Observed
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If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.
Mark Helprin / Novelist
Now And Then
Tragedy
Worthwhile
Betraying
Discover
Shakespeare
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The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.
Anne-Marie Slaughter / University Professor
Achievement
Celebration
Curriculum
Pins
Pride
Self Esteem
Betraying
False
Flag
Wearing
Lapel
Perennial
Praised
Stands
Toddlers
Ultimately
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If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.
Richard Dawkins / Ethologist
Running
Believe
Bishops
Buying
Decent
Enlightenment
Friendly
Nice
Risk
Virtuous
Believing
Betraying
Scientific
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When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do.
Demi Moore / Actress
Odds
Past
Struggle
Weight
Betraying
In The Past
Struggling
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Samuel Adams / Founding Father Of The United States
Men
Connections
Country
Feelings
Guilty
Instance
Lost
Moral
Private Life
Regard
Virtuous
Void
Life Man Lost
Betraying
Obligations
Private
Seldom
Soon
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For John le Carre, it was always who's betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When you go back to the '30s, it's a case of good vs. evil, and no kidding. When I have a hero who believes France and Britain are on the right side, a reader is not going to question that.
Alan Furst / Author
Britain
Evil
France
Hero
Reader
Good Always Hero
Believes
Betraying
Case
John
Right Side
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What's wrong with social climbing? What's wrong with trying to improve your lot in life? And if you do, what happens if your family doesn't? Is that betraying your roots? Are you being dishonest? I had a really good job, and it paid really well. Am I supposed to quit it out of loyalty to my parents?
Jeannette Walls / Writer
Loyalty
Climbing
Good Job
Roots
Life Family Good
Betraying
Dishonest
Quit
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