I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. thanks to Alan Bennett -H. L. Mencken.
H. L. MENCKEN I feel the importance of dance is drastically underestimated.
CAROLINE PROHOSKY I found reading Alan Bennett striking because you have this sudden flash of recognition when you rea...
MICHAEL GOVE Alan Bennett is a starmaker; he's the Simon Cowell of the theatre world! He's a beautiful, b...
RUSSELL TOVEY It's always good to be underestimated.
DONALD TRUMP It's always good to be underestimated.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ That made me feel awesome. I really appreciated that.
CHRIS MASON The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN DO NOT ALWAYS WORK TO BE APPRECIATED; BUT TO APPRECIATE OTHERS
JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. We feel this. Ed, Alan, feel this. I have friends, relatives that feel this pain. Help in any way yo...
DEION SANDERS I want to be appreciated, to be loved, to feel wanted.
ERIC WEDDLE Appreciation is always appreciated.
SHUBHAM CHOUDHARY Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politi...
DAVID LLOYD I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
HALEY BENNETT A lot of people underestimated us; I think (Roosevelt) underestimated us.
JAKE HANIKA Now, now." He smiles, "Don't you worry 'bout a thing. Damen's right where you left him. Though I mus...
ALYSON NOEL They just feel like they were doing their job, so we can't help but feel a little undeserving of all...
EDDIE WRIGHT Failure to die is always appreciated.
MIRA GRANT The biggest mistake of economists over the past 20 years ... We've consistently underestimated growt...
MARK VITNER One of our greatest emotional needs is to feel appreciated.
SHELLY KAY WALDE I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
ZAHA HADID I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of frie...
GRAHAM MOORE It's a big deal to feel appreciated. Many drivers and monitors do not feel that.
DARRELL BRADEN I wasn't thinking about it. It was unexpected. I'm flattered. It's nice to feel that appreciated.
JEN RIZZOTTI Music is always noise-relatedAnd often not appreciated.
WILHELM BUSCH There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.
ALAN CUMMING Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. I read in the 'Daily Mail' that I'm one of these 'foul-mouthed comedians.' But I...
STEWART LEE I don't need to always quote others because I actually have original thoughts".
~R. Alan ...
R. ALAN WOODS Creative writing is so under appreciated that I just feel we need our own place to congregate.
ELIZABETH PETERSEN I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.
SHANIA TWAIN If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You lea...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Everybody starts out as strangers.
J.A. REDMERSKI It’s about the dream of second chances,” he says finally. He hasn’t raised his eyes from the p...
KATJA MILLAY Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
KOFI ANNAN Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time...
, ALWAYS NOW, 1997 Whatever job Alan does for this club, whatever job Alan would want to do for this club, he will alwa...
GLENN ROEDER If they don't feel appreciated, they're not going to stay with the job.
GAY ALBERTS RUBY I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
MAMIE VAN DOREN Bad days will occur but always have good intentions. Being genuine is liberating to yourself and muc...
TYCONIS D. ALLISON TY Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "T...
ARNOLD BENNETT I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.
ALICE BARRETT One day we'll look back we'll smile and we'll laugh,but right now we just cry. Cuz it's so hard to s...
MILEY CYRUS I said last week against (Thornton Academy) it was an ugly win, and today was an ugly win. But it wa...
JAY MAZUR The war defined a lot of things. Whatever he saw over there, he appreciated life here, and he apprec...
MARILYN WEEKS But one thing that's constant is we've always appreciated fans. They put us on the map and t...
CHERYL JAMES Make Others Feel Important. We all have an innate desire to feel important, be special, and feel app...
SUSAN C. YOUNG No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
EUGENE FIELD He allows me to have my own program and supports me and makes me feel like I am appreciated and resp...
JIM COLBORN It keeps me coming back to work everyday. It makes me feel valued and appreciated.
JEFF WALTERS I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.
SIENNA MILLER I have always appreciated vintage clothing, but after working on 'Call the Midwife' for six ...
JESSICA RAINE I feel honesty always works.
BOBBY UNSER I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.
KATHRYN LASKY I think that's what some of us did, underestimated how good of a team (OSU) is and underestimated th...
CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI I've worked with people and I've known people that were really competitive, but I've alw...
ANNE HATHAWAY Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. I think Alan Greenspan is wrong,
JAMES HOFFA Sure, I think everybody's nervous, ... Overall, look where the team was. No one expected them to be ...
RICHARD M. DALEY I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was...
BLAKE LIVELY I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same...
VINCE VAUGHN I don't feel like we won anything. It's over, but it will never be over.
HOOTIE JOHNSON I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short.
AMIE KAUFMAN The government over-charged in this case. They underestimated the difficulty in proving these elemen...
CHARLES OGLETREE I always thought that if I didn't feel it, the other person was hurting more. But I've realized over...
BOB SANDERS The look in her eyes told me that under any other circumstances, I would either already be naked wit...
CHRISTINA LAUREN Wait, you remember that?"
"Of course I remember that. You sounded like a frat boy and looked li...
CHRISTINA LAUREN Associates like Alan are the reason why GEICO is so successful. They are always giving 110 percent.
GEORGE ROGERS but the question of what to do with Bennett now is a whole different issue.
DONNA KELLY A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really m...
CRISS JAMI Hopefully, 'An American Dream' can, in some small way, let our military personnel know that they are...
BRAD COTTER My style is dependent on my moods, so I feel like it's all over the place.
SHANTEL VANSANTEN Do they feel a little undervalued? To some degree that's kind of the tone in there this morning. The...
CHRIS COLLINS We feel positive and think the momentum is on our side that strategic logic [of this merger] will be...
ARCH CURRID An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your...
JANE AUSTEN I feel tired, but in general, I do love being pregnant and always feel pretty good. I'm lucky. I...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN I appreciated the gesture,
KWEISI MFUME Clearly people feel less wealthy and people are going to focus on what happens to the direction of i...
GREGG HYMOWITZ [Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing] I Left My Heart. ... that song made me ...
TONY BENNETT Not everyone is comfortable with standing up. But I know it does get appreciated.
ETAN THOMAS I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way.
HELMUT KOHL Are you in love with me, Camryn Bennett?”
… “Not yet,” I say with a smile in my voice, ...
J.A. REDMERSKI I've always written down how I feel.
ADELE Tony Bennett is an iconic jazz legend.
ANDRA DAY I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion.
ADELE I underestimated the death of business in town in the fall.
JAMES HUTSON As things turned out we stuck to that price but I think we underestimated and we haven't left oursel...
GAIL DAVIDSON I love what I do, and I think I've appreciated it more throughout the years, but just to keep on...
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated p...
MARK TWAIN I'm still shy," I admit, pulling the sleeves over my hands, "and I might always be, I don't know, bu...
MEGAN JACOBSON A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomp...
JOHN STEINBECK I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wante...
ROBERT OSBORNE From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an en...
BILL CONDON I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that's always been my mindset.
TRAVIS SCOTT I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
J. COLE For anyone who has ever had a moment of weakness.
It won’t be painful forever, so don’t let...
J.A. REDMERSKI And if my Sea od Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him.
I don't say any...
KATJA MILLAY I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.
TAMORA PIERCE Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
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ARNOLD BENNETT It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
JESSE BENNETT Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing...
ARNOLD BENNETT Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of avera...
ARNOLD BENNETT Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
BO BENNETT Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman,
Who came of decent people;
He built a church in Dublin town,...
HENRY BENNETT