#cultivate

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes. ↗

— James Wolcott

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Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated. ↗

— Dan Glickman

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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy. ↗

— Napolean Hill

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But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life. ↗

— George Cadbury

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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

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