#delicate

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

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No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was. ↗

— Natalie Wood

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Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education. ↗

— Tipper Gore

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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

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