#obliged

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony. ↗

— Victoria Wood

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I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#aside #ballerina #being #build #craft

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

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I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ↗

— James Boswell

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I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me. ↗

— Barbara Steele

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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#clever #crazy #least #many #minds

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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